An Egyptian shopkeeper in Doha poses in front of a wall-carpet that displays the Emir


Having made a sale to a tourist this shopkeeper was happy to pose in front of a wall carpet bearing the picture of the Emir. A souk also sook, souq, or suq, or shuq in Hebrew is a commercial quarter in an Arab or Berber city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized or Muslim city. It may also refer to the weekly market in some smaller towns where neutrality from tribal conflicts would be declared to permit the exchange of surplus goods. In Modern Standard Arabic the term refers to markets in both the physical and abstract economic sense (, an Arab would speak of the souq in the old city as well as the souq for oil, and would call the concept of the free market


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Location: Doha Qatar UAE
Photo credit: © John Hopkins / Alamy / Afripics
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