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By capturing various social practices, the gates of the city of Sana’a have become the locus where diversified sociabilities take shape. These unfold thanks to a unique spatial structuration which enhances exchanges of all kinds.Moreover, these sociabilities depend closely on the amplification of socio-spatial phenomena, such as the “soukalisation” and the interpenetration of intra and extra-muros spaces. But while the urban spread has pushed back the town’s boundaries, new neighbourhoods emerge thanks to their ability to recreate time-space frames of sociability outside the traditional urban context. As sites of interactive social practices, now reproduced, now renewed, the new entrances of Sana’a demonstrate how the forming of spaces of sociability on the fringes of the city is best explained by the reconstitution of a kind of “gate effect” on the outskirts.