- ʿAlī al-Muqrī (1966-, Yemen) – Bakhūr ʿAdanī (‘Adeni incense’, 2014). This novel is set in the Yemeni city of Aden during the British occupation in the 1940s until its independence in 1967. It follows several characters living in the cosmopolitan city made up of different religions, ethnicities, and nationalities (also in 1937 – 1963 Aden (Yemen) British Colony).
- Ḥabīb ʿAbd al-Rabb Surūrī (1956-, Yemen) – Ibnat Sūslūf (2014, English trans. Suslov’s Daughter, 2017). Set at the seaport of Aden from the 1960s until the 21st century, ʿImrān develops an intimate relationship with Fātiḥ, the daughter of a high-ranking official in the Marxist party. When ʿImrān moves to France, he meets Najāʾ, who he eventually marries. But after she dies during the Paris terrorist attacks, he returns to Yemen. There he meets Fātiḥ again, and he is surprised to discover she has become a Salafist. Through the interaction of the two, the novel explores the Yemeni history from independence to the Arab spring (also in I: Ideologies and Political Movements: Communism and Marxism).