Sentence examples for souk from inspiring English sources

We explored the wind-whipped town's white and blue port and souk, known for exquisite woodwork and musical instruments – the town hosts the renowned Gnaoua world music festival each year.

Tate Modern became almost too popular for its own good, a heaving cultural souk – acutely in need of its planned extension – where art can occasionally be seen between massed heads and shoulders.

Most of these hotels are 50% vacant and the malls are empty – the rents are too expensive for the former souk stall-holders.

In a North African souk recently people kept shouting 'Ali Baba Ali Babaat' at me, which is a little surprising given I was probably the only non-Arab there".

While the adults dealt with the paperwork, the Jangano juniors explored the souk, chatting to the traders and their families, drinking tea, learning a little Arabic, discovering the pleasure of haggling and eating kilos of dates.

We started with a brass door, and Mustafa declaring, "This is a brass door", but we soon scaled up to include the hidden passageways of the souk, the shadowy old metal-working quarter, the ancient leather market (much more interesting than it sounds) and, finally, the city's 16th-century madrassa, with its walls covered in delicate carvings from the Qur'an.

The assailant threw two grenades at Mr Ibrahim's entourage, driving through the dusty plaza that the Iraqi regime created when in 1991 it bulldozed the rebels' hideouts in the old souk.

Instead, they adopted an innovative approach focused on clear concepts that are easily understandable by all: "happiness" (khouam souk in Lao) and "suffering" (khouam thuk).

The aftermath of the foreign-ministry bombing was a rare chance to cut Mr Maliki down to size, leaving the former bead-seller from the Damascus souk with no other choice but to strike out on his own.Mr Maliki has thus announced a plan to set up a multi-confessional coalition, making a virtue of his predicament.

For decades a franchise network made up of thousands of dealers has peddled ordinary cars as though they were exotic goods in a Moroccan souk.

His first ventures into textile-making were run by Gujaratis back from Yemen, where Dhirubhai had worked for a petrol company during the day while trading rice, sugar and other commodities in the souk after hours.Indians complain that social connections trump hard work.