- Nādiyah al-Kawkabānī (1968-, Yemen) – Ṣanʿāʾī (‘My Sanaa’, 2013). The main character in this novel is the city of Sanaa. It centers Ṣubḥiyyah and her love interest Ḥamīd. Ṣubḥiyyah studied architecture in Cairo and returns to Yemen after her family left for exile thirty years earlier. Through Ṣubḥiyyah’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 (also in 1967 – 1968 Siege of Sanaa). The architecture of Sanaa also takes on an important role, as it is described in the novel by Ṣubḥiyyah, as well as the city’s social and religious history.
