But the sidewalk souk is much smaller than the original.
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But in the Attariyeh souk, the destruction is almost complete.
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Customer: It just reminded me of a Middle Eastern souk.
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We would play in a small dirt yard behind the souk.
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Going to the grocery store was not like going to the souk.
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The old souk has been demolished, replaced by shops in an open plaza.
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Have the souk merchants been able to replenish their supplies and regain clientele?
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Over the years the souk, surrounding streets, and portions of the church were rebuilt.
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He earns extra money helping at his father's shoe shop in Erbil's main souk.
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In the souk outside the khan, a group had gathered to chat on plastic chairs.
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In the souk outside the khan, a group had gathered to chat on plastic chairs.
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She is married to Marcus Andrew, the owner of Le Souk and of the building.
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Norman palaces mix with Byzantine domes and Baroque churches with Arabian tiles and souk-like markets.
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I still remember the taste of pomegranates, schawarma, lafa from the souk on Ben Yehuda Street.
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The nearby boutique Ibu is like wandering into a bright Moroccan souk or a Mexican mercado.
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He was to work in his uncle's shop in the Gold Souk, Dubai's old jewelry market.
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There are a bunch of shops, but the original stall is in the Arab souk in Jerusalem.
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The souk was a hive of economic activity that forced rival groups to deal with each other.
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It's from December, at least, but God only knows how long it sat in that dusty souk.
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The khan in the Souk al-Zarb section of the battered Old City was a textile hub.
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For all its architectural grandeur, it is really a noisy souk, a forum for gossip, ideas and haggling.
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Often he tended to his family shop in a centuries-old souk when his father went for afternoon prayers.
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The outdoor market, known as the souk, is lined with tunic-clad traders of incense, traditional robes and gold.
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"He is very, very welcome," one Saudi man told CNN quickly as he sauntered through the souk, or marketplace.
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Having nothing to compare it to, I wandered the streets blissfully, counting cats and taking pictures of the souk.
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Damascus Journal DAMASCUS, Syria — Adnan Gimaah was perhaps the sourest purveyor of sweets in the old souk of Damascus.
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He serves as an inspiration to men across the country, including in that tucked-away alley near the souk.
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Each guest room is lit by a hand-blown Damascene chandelier, all purchased from the old souk of Damascus.
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Guests begin to react On the hotel's rooftop, Bob Nicholls, 54, was eating dinner with colleagues at Souk restaurant.
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DUBAI/SYDNEY (Reuters) - In Dubai's decades-old Gold Souk, customers from around the world haggle over bangles and necklaces.
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From the souk, the group strolled to a nearby restaurant, the Palace of Princes, for lunch with local leaders.
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But a man sat at a table in one, singing Koranic verses, his melodic voice echoing softly through the souk.
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Authorities are planning to tear down the Bab Doukkala souk and replace it with a public garden, according to locals.
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From the roof of the restored Saqatiyeh section of the souk, damaged minarets can be seen punctuating the Old City's skyline.
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They pull faces when they taste Arabic coffee, and they "ooh" and "aah" over cheap shoes are at the local souk.
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While this is going on, Paltrow is wandering the souk, where she spots a girl in a hijab riding a skateboard.
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At the gold souk in downtown Khartoum, a large sign advertising Algunade blazes above rows and rows of idle jewellery shops.
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At the gold souk in downtown Khartoum, a large sign advertising Algunade blazes above rows and rows of idle jewelry shops.
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Most customers, he adds, come to him asking for customized jewelry -- something that can be done quickly in the emirate's gold souk.
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Um Rashed Al-Rashed was selling jewelry and baskets of seeds at a small souk, hoping to supplement her husband's modest pension.
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Once home to the souk and jewelry market, a bustling maze of commerce, it is now a stretch of apocalyptic real estate.
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ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - In the old khan, a stone courtyard off Aleppo's medieval souk, most of the 41 cloth shops are deserted.
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Aleppo was a commercial hub, home to a souk and a citadel, to a grand mosque and to more than 2 million people.
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Later, an Arab shopkeeper I spoke to at the souk in Qamishlo, the de facto capital of Rojava, told me the same thing.
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McMullin: On my first day in Damascus, I was in the souk [marketplace], using broken Arabic to talk to a spice vendor there.
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The old city's sprawling medieval souk, considered one of the Arab world's finest — and a Unesco World Heritage site — is now a wasteland.
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At the fish souk, trucks sold their Red Sea catch whole, to be carried to a nearby restaurant and grilled on the spot.
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If you come to the Tangier souk looking for fish, you can go to any one of the fishmongers in the echoing fish hall.
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Cooks who live in the country, far from any souk or spice market, may make a baharat from just black peppercorns and allspice berries.
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The Byblos festival takes place on the ancient city's seafront, near the old city, with its Phoenician temple, Roman theater, Crusader castle and winding souk.
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Oil drums and sandbags, topped by a cushion in traditional fabric, gave fighters a firing position that commanded the souk corridor leading towards the Citadel.
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She teaches at a private university in Hama while her husband has been working with the United Nations Development Program on rebuilding Homs's old souk.
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In 2004 Hwang Woo-souk, a South Korean researcher, announced that he had successfully created a new line of ES cells from a cloned human embryo.
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At the Bab Antakia souk, Heitham Ghanam, a middle-aged trader in women's fashion accessories, was clearing rubble from his shop with his wife and daughter.
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They look down on an area that suffered massive damage in a conflict that brought down the medieval covered souk, smashed mosque domes and burnt churches.
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Particularly striking are her drawings of markets places, whether a bustling souk in Jerusalem's Old City or a makeshift market stall in a sleepy Austrian town.
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" And in "Souk Eye," a plush Latin-electro ballad, he's in Los Angeles again, pledging "stone love" to someone before noting, "I got to run soon.
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Between rolls, it feels less like a dice game than a chaotic souk — an inscrutable flurry of wagers, slang and chip movements with no initially discernible logic.
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"It took us two years to build," said Ms. Funti, who has worked at several New York restaurants, including Le Souk, the previous tenant in the space.
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Scratches and bruises don't magically disappear after a couple of minutes, nor do Zoe and Sam happen to find designer clothes and stilettos buried in a Moroccan souk.
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From the ancient citadel to the bustling souk, there is little left of the historic, beautiful city that was once visited by tourists from all over the world.
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The wineries have a stand every Saturday at Beirut's farmer's market, Souk el Tayeb, where I've often sat under sunny Lebanese skies and quaffed a glass with friends.
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One of the tallest, loveliest stretches of the souk has already been restored, its collapsed domes rising again high above the cobbled floor using original materials and techniques.
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Tote bags full of slippers from the Moroccan souk, tasseled rattan pouches and piles of test patterns, all stored away in the nooks and crannies of the showroom.
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The desire to do business has long been present, its history visible along the creek in old Dubai where the souk boasts frankincense from Oman and saffron from Iran.
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His example, clearing and cleaning his shop despite the charred black walls of the souk around, points to the chance that Aleppo's Old City might one day be resurrected.
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Aux Merveilles de MarrakechIf you're in the market for rugs (or even if you're not), you'll appreciate this immaculate and well-stocked shop at the start of Souk City.
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This event by Souk Berlin, an evolving project focusing on immigrant cultures in the Hauptstadt, aims to restore the kebab's besmirched reputation and honor the community that created it.
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Souk Berlin is going to be a Markthalle which is dedicated to celebrating the food cultures of immigrants, both those who have been here for decades and newcomers, refugees.
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Every couple of hours, the awnings are retracted, the metal tables are rolled back, and a giant locomotive crawls through, parting the souk like Moses at the Red Sea.
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Bulldozers have started clearing a path where Souk Al-Samak Street once ran along the river, but almost nothing else has changed since the air bombardment flattened this district.
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Much of the city's architectural soul was stamped out in the fighting, which destroyed the old souk and severely damaged the Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque, an important pilgrimage site.
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In Souk al-Qamash, a covered textile market surmounted by three high domes and ringed by a frieze of scallop-carved stones, Mohammed Maymi, short and amiable, was repainting his shop.
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I remember the bright colors of the souk in Jerusalem, running my hands over hot limestone, scribbling notes in childish script to insert in the mossy cracks of the Wailing Wall.
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The two main centers of Aleppan business - the Old City souk and the industrial zones on the city's outskirts - were on the front lines and suffered from heavy shellfire and looting.
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The sidewalks along St. Marks over to Astor Place were just as lively — they were a sort of souk where you could buy back what the junkies had stolen from your apartment.
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DAMAGE The two main centres of Aleppan business - the Old City souk and the industrial zones on the city's outskirts - were on the front lines and suffered from heavy shellfire and looting.
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Erbil's famous flea market, Souk Al-Lenga, sells second-hand items from across Kurdistan and is a common place for both tourists and locals to pick up a few bits and pieces.
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This recipe is courtesy of MUNCHIES contributor Daniel Shkolnik, who fell in love with the "astonishing versatility" of m'smen after walking away from the Tangier souk with about five pounds of bread.
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He had two shops in the souk, both now closed, and a textile workshop with four machines and 400 workers running round the clock and exporting across the Middle East, Fadel said.
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Imagine a treasure-filled souk of exquisitely crafted objects and textiles in which you know everything to be authentic, the best of its kind, but with prices clearly marked, so no haggling.
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One stretch of the covered souk is now a dark tunnel, pierced by beams of daylight from roof shafts, its entrance a mass of stones and its shops clogged with rubble and weeds.
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An old souk (or market) in the Christian neighborhood of Maidan had been obliterated, so traders pitched up stalls on the side of the road and flogged anything they could get their hands on.
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"It's God's message to make everything beautiful after mankind destroyed everything," said Majd Kanaa, 35, standing at the end of a souk alleyway where he was repairing his late father's shop, ready to reopen.
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Ben Guerdane's so-called 'Souk Libya' – a labyrinth of low-slung stores selling clothes, televisions and microwaves, some still in boxes with the names of Libyan import firms — has been under pressure for years.
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After visiting Zohra's stand in the souk one day, I walked away with about five pounds of bread comprising virtually every form and name that m'smen dough can take—and there is a dazzling diversity.
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Even if the queues are long, there's plenty to browse at the souk-inspired marketplace, while the addition of a new interactive app will provide plenty of intergalactic activity throughout the land beyond the rides.
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As a boy in Beirut, Lebanon, Selim Mouzannar roamed the incense-scented halls of the souk, where members of the city's Christian community ran its hundred jewelry workshops — Mr. Mouzannar's father and grandfather among them.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The annual Cairo International Book Fair opened this week in a shiny new venue far away, literally and metaphorically, from the city's historic book souk - and many of the old market's merchants stayed away.
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LOCAL GRIEVANCES Ben Guerdanes so-called Souk Libya a labyrinth of low-slung stores selling clothes, televisions and microwaves, some still in boxes with the names of Libyan import firms -- has been under pressure for years.
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In Ben Guerdane, Mars, the clothing retailer, has tried to replace Libyan goods with wares imported from Turkey, China and other East Asian countries but they are more expensive and dont fit the Souk Libya model.
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After the first two hours of walking through the narrow alleyways of the souk, passing by hundreds of tea glasses, sequined-covered straw bags and leather slippers, my initial delight soon turns to an agitated haze.
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In Ben Guerdane, Mars, the clothing retailer, has tried to replace Libyan goods with wares imported from Turkey, China and other East Asian countries but they are more expensive and don't fit the 'Souk Libya' model.
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Today, the lingering smell of burning is everywhere in its Old City: under collapsed domes, in the soot-blackened souk and in the cracked masonry, broken glass and discarded bullet casings that litter the famous Umayyad Mosque.
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Many have transplanted their businesses to a sort of sidewalk souk in safer parts of the city: A long line of stalls have popped up outside a row of apartment buildings and shops in the downtown area.
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After attending a UN conference there, admiring the city's glittering, intergalactic architecture, visiting the Gold Souk and then riding a camel for 30 seconds in the desert, I felt myself searching for something beyond the glamour and sand.
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"That is dangerous territory, to try to stay ahead of them and anticipate where they are going," said Wright, who was joined onstage by co-star Luke Hemsworth at the Souk Madinat Theater in Dubai's sprawling Jumeirah resort.
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Ms. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo could simply shop at galleries and auctions around the world, but she likes the human interaction that comes with the tightly packed, souk-like arrangement of the fair in the Messe Basel exhibition hall.
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It is here that you will do your best shopping for tunics and gold-patterned silk shoes, and indulge in an abundance of fresh marinated olives and other delights, piled high at stand after stand in the souk (marketplace).
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There is no established tradition of museum-going within Qatar, and most Qataris in Doha spend much of their free time in malls or in demarcated, historically-styled leisure areas such as the Souk Waqif and the Katara Art Centre.
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Transitions between them are sudden: One second you're surrounded by the elaborate dresses used in Tunisian weddings, the next you're hit by a cloud of perfume as you enter Souk El Attarine, where perfumers have mixed botanicals since the 1200s.
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ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - In the rubble-strewn square outside Aleppo's ancient citadel and under the scorched vaults of its covered souk, workmen are starting to mend the destruction of a war that has shattered the Syrian city's priceless historical heritage.
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Art Review Walking through the souk of 86 stalls that constitutes Aipad, the annual show of photograph dealers, this visitor was struck (and not for the first time) by the way certain themes have persisted throughout the history of the medium.
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The souk was destroyed in 1976 during the early days of the country's civil war, but for Mr. Mouzannar, now a 53-year-old designer with spiky gray hair and his own Beirut-based jewelry line, it remains a potent memory.
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A visit to her Manhattan showroom feels like stepping into the most wonderful international souk, filled with hand-blown glassware, ceramics from Europe and exquisite vintage textiles as well as her own vibrantly hued dhurries, cushions and fabrics that have inspired many imitations.
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In the remains of the Attariyeh section of the souk, where the stone roof collapsed, a young couple sat on a pile of stones courting in the warm evening air, the sun illuminating the yellow flowers and picking out the woman's red headscarf.
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Next stop was a part of the old souk recaptured early in the war, now plastered with posters of Mr. Assad, his father and Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, the Shiite Lebanese militia that has provided crucial assistance to government forces.
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From the pizzas at Graffiato to the succulent chicken parm sandwiches at G to the bomba rices served in a hotel-dining-room-cum-souk at Arroz to the spit-roasted lamb at Kapnos, his menus have largely drawn enthusiasm from Washington critics and diners.
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Five years ago, I learned the prudence of such caution when friends emailed me in alarm from Damascus, where they had been lured by an article I'd written about the city's beguiling old-town souk — and had landed just as Syria's civil war began.
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Arrive at his Studio 54-esque stall in the carpet souk and be led through the winding alleyways to his showroom where he houses an incredible stock of both vintage rugs from all over Morocco, as well high-quality new ones of his own design.
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MUSCAT, Oman — In the alleyways near the Mutrah Souk here, amid the chattering families out for a stroll or the barefoot old men playing cards outside a small neighborhood mosque, Bangladeshi and Indian tailors tend to the business of dressing Omani men in their everyday best.
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Mr. Hajjaj's stylings — mixing camouflage, polka-dot, or animal prints with traditional fabrics from the souk; adding cheap plastic sunglasses shaped like hearts; printing Louis Vuitton logos onto the motorbike body — bring a sense of play that melds Moroccan heritage with a patchwork hip-hop swagger.
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Whatever the reality, Mr. Snyder extended his range to include not only fabrics inspired by striped organic cottons spotted at a souk in Marrakesh, but also looks that combined elements of traditional dress in ways that, while unexpected, are geared to the new world of work.
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"The most urgent question here is not how a collection of Pizza Huts, Safeways, McDonald's and Body Shops gathered together as a 'souk' will recapture any lifestyle other than that of a shopping mall," Saree Makdisi, who is professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, has written.
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A Lydia Courteille octopus bague ring ($26,26) and a Viktor & Rolf haute couture sweater adorned with upcycled tulle ruffles, buttons and crystals from past collections ($3,500) are among the treasures at Maison de Mode, one of 11 pop-ups at the new OMA-designed luxury souk, Faena Bazaar.
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And under the arches of the old souk, beside the gold jewelers and cloth merchants, men in sneakers and sunglasses trade bricks of cash — hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros — as the public face of the flourishing currency market, a source of elaborate scams and fabulous wealth.
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All these are probably true, but on the other hand, by choosing not to devote myself to my offspring, I've seen things I wouldn't have seen, like the pyramids of Egypt at sundown, or tasted foods I wouldn't have tasted, like camel stew at a souk in Qatar.
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But with an aesthetic bordered on one side by the Croisette and, this season, on the other by the souk, Mr. Porte Jacquemus has become a dab hand at a streamlined sensuality that mixes clinging thin knits with cowl-draped jerseys, caftan jumpsuits and a whole lot of leg.
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He does sometimes sell watches, but never ones that were gifts or have sentimental value, like the Frédérique Constant model that his uncle, now deceased, gave him or the Rolex Datejust that he bought for his sister during a visit to the Gold Souk, the traditional market in Dubai.
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He had been on a trip to Morocco and had gone to the souk in Marrakesh, to the same place where Yves Saint Laurent had his trims done in the early years of Rive Gauche, and bought eight undershirts in burgundy and eight in black and a few overshirts.
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When he slipped into Qatar last weekend, Mr. al-Qahtani and his friend Khaled al-Anqari mingled in Souk Wakif, a popular district in central Doha with upmarket cafes, falcon dealers and buildings festooned with giant pictures of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
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Meanwhile, the Blackpool Piers in the United Kingdom are being damaged by rising sea levels attributed to climate change, and the al-Hadba' Minaret in Mosul, Iraq; the Souk in Aleppo, Syria; the Old City of Ta'izz in Yemen; and the Sukur Cultural Landscape in Nigeria, are all in tumultuous conflict zones.
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As Syria burns, it falls to Malek to renovate the flat — haggling for light fixtures from the Electricity Souk during a blackout, and keeping an eye on a corrupt contractor while the Assad regime gasses its own people, drops barrel bombs — oil drums loaded with shrapnel — from helicopters, and disappears thousands to be tortured in underground prisons.
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Writers who deliberately seek out the company of those foreign to them need to be armed with an unshakable sense of self-possession and a certain sense of arrogance; you need to be able to walk into a place (be it a city or a souk or a tundra) without wondering whether who you are is actually where you're from, because you already know that where you're from doesn't matter.
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DU * AWARDS AED 430 MILLION WORTH OF CONTRACTS FOR DUBAI'S DEIRA ISLANDS * SAYS CO HAS INVESTED NEARLY 7.5 BILLION DIRHAMS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS FOR DEIRA ISLANDS SO FAR, MORE ARE DUE SOON * DEIRA ISLANDS NIGHT SOUK, WITH MORE THAN 5,300 WATERSIDE SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS, IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND DUE TO OPEN IN 2018 * DEIRA ISLANDS IS EXPECTED TO HAVE POPULATION OF 250,000 AND TO CREATE 80,000 JOBS Further company coverage:
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