- Nādiyyah al-Kawkabānī (1968-, Yemen) – Ṣanʿāʾī (‘My Sanaa’, 2013). The main character in this novel is the city of Sanaa. It centers Ṣubḥīyah and her love interest Ḥamīd. Ṣubḥīyah studied architecture in Cairo and returns to Yemen after her family left for exile thirty years earlier. Through Ṣubḥīyah’s search of her late father’s history, the novel describes that of Sanaa, most importantly the 1967 – 1968 Siege of Sanaa during which her father defended the city. The architecture of Sanaa also takes on an important role, as it is described in the novel by Ṣubḥīyah, as well as the city’s social and religious history (also in C: Cities: Yemen: Sanaa).
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