Abdullah Abdulwahhab Nu'man

His father, the martyr Abdulwahab Noman, was the appointed mayor of Al-Hajaria by the Ottoman Empire and was executed after his participation in the 1948 revolution against Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din, following an imprisonment of about 25 years. His cousin is the late Prime Minister Mohammed Ahmed Noman and one of the pioneers of the national movement.

He received his education from his father in Al-Hajaria and his place of detention in Sana'a, and then from the scholar Abdullah Al-Muazbi in Zabid.

He worked as a teacher at the Ahmadiyya School in Ta'izz from 1941 to 1944. He left his region after being warned of an imminent arrest order from Imam Ahmed bin Yahya Hamid al-Din, and he fled to Aden. He worked as a teacher in the Bazzar'a School in Aden and contributed to the establishment of the Free Party. He also published the newspaper "Sawt al-Yemen" ("Voice of Yemen"),[1] which opposed the Imamate rule in the north. He wrote hot political articles in other Aden newspapers, such as "Fatah al-Jazira," under the pseudonym "Yemeni without Shelter."

One of the most important milestones in his life was the establishment of the newspaper "Al-Fadooll".[2] He edited articles under the name "Bisbas" in "al-Kifah" newspaper He returned to Ta'izz and Sana'a after the September 1962 revolution, and he was imprisoned in the Rad'a Prison from 1966 to 1967 by order of the Egyptian army, following the arrest of the delegation of the Noman government in Egypt for their opposition to the Egyptian army's intervention in Yemeni affairs. He held several positions in the Yemeni government, including Minister of Information and Unity Affairs.