How To Use Souk In A Sentence
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Here in Dubai the hotel is built like an exotic Arabian village, complete with a souk and outdoor cafes where you can sit and try a hubble-bubble pipe as you sip some very strong, sweet Turkish-style coffee.
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Manama has modern buildings and wide, tree-lined roads as well as an older section with a traditional souk, or marketplace.
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Much of the city 's souk was destroyed last month.
Times, Sunday Times
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But only temporarily, because the depth returns, although when it does, the hints of Mitsouko's trademark buttery powderiness are replaced with what I would describe as peppery powderiness.
Guerlain Mitsouko Fleur de Lotus: Perfume Review
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The capital, Tripoli, is a pan-African city of Italianate squares and Arab souks where visitors can wander without being hassled by touts or pushy shopkeepers.
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I was beguiled by the romance and exotic atmosphere of the souks in Marrakech.
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Bayini Ngai Mpo Na Yo," from Franco's first session under his own name, might sound quaint next to the faster, sophisticated soukous with which his work later became synonymous.
Lost tracks: "Roots of OK Jazz, Congo Classics 1955-1956"
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Congo jazz and soukous, played on a guitar, are popular varieties for such dances.
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When we ventured into town to visit the souk, my cousin's wife was required to wear an abaya, a shapeless, full-length black cape.
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He sees neglected horses and donkeys struggling with heavy loads in ancient souks and helps treat injured animals.
The Sun
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The caravanserais, souks, hammams and charitable institutions which share the same architectural language throughout the Muslim world are not compared or discussed.
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Their adventure will begin on day two when they will get the chance to explore the magnificent city of Marrakech, including such attractions in Marrakech as the souks, or local markets.
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The witness reported hearing what sounded like explosions and said he had heard that a police station in the opposition-minded Souk al-Juma suburb had been raided.
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If it's jewellery you're after, there are enough gold necklaces, chains and rings festooning the brightly-lit windows of the downtown souks to pay off an average country's national debt.
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Muslims have a fantastic ability to turn on and off their "deeply sincere" beliefs when it comes to fooling non-Muslims, whether selling in a souk (that metalwork zarf-and-finjan set in Morocco, the hubble-bubble pipe in Egypt, the carpet in Damascus), or outside the souk, selling Infidels a bill of goods.
Jihad Watch
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Preservation of the urban heritage also is seen in the renovation of old forts, palaces, souks, and mosques.
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Of course an essential part of any visit to Marrakesh is a trip to the souk, the market, the vast complex of covered streets and alleys that rambles with its own logic north from the Djemaa el Fna.
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A few streets on and also worth a visit is the spice souk.
The Sun
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It was late evening when we left Wonderland for a third wonderland: the Gold Souk.
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I was carrying about 80 lbs. of groceries to the “T” subway and wearing precious little clothing mostly, a red charmeuse camisole, green velvet hiphuggers, English riding boots, waist-length dark hair, and Mitsouko.
La Perfumista par Excellence, Part I: The Other Passions
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It's a collection of African rumbas called soukous performed decades ago by an artist known as Franco.
A 'Francophonic' Take On Congolese Pop
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Wander the narrow alleys of any souk and you'll realise why Moroccan food is so tongue-tingling: the carefully shaped, rainbow-hued piles of spices are dazzling.
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His son-in-law is the chief cook who does the shopping in the souk early in the morning.
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The Congolese singer Franco, backed by the all-powerful jazz orchestra of Kinshasa, unleashes irresistible soukous to commemorate a seventh wedding anniversary.
Readers recommend songs about anniversaries: The results
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I was beguiled by the romance and exotic atmosphere of the souks in Marrakech.
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Although non-Muslims cannot see Mecca and Medina (and those with Israeli stamps on their passports cannot enter the country at all), most can visit the old souks of cities like Jidda, which is well-preserved.
Elder of Ziyon
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Land convoys and helicopters bore Western evacuees to Yamoussoukro, where US military cargo planes waited to fly them to Abidjan, or neighbouring Ghana.
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These hot-licks workouts became so popular the music was given a new name, soukous, and Franco was without question the grandmaster.
Franco: Africa's First Modern Pop Superstar
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A walk along the Rue des Martyrs is scented with the souk-sweat of cumin and open sacks of cardamom pods bubble on the pavement between the sex shops and flophouses.
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The first volume concentrated on eight West African countries, but this second selection is an entirely Congolese mixture of rumba roots and early soukous.
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Tabou Combo's music is aimed squarely at the dance floor -- mixing Haitian meringue, rara vodoun percussion with kompa and elements of Brazilian music, soukous and funk.
Jim Luce: International Community Gathers for "Uni Haiti" at Upper East Gala
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Every major Hollywood release is pirated onto VCDs and DVDs and sold in souks and bazaars from Tajikistan to Taipei.
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The old souk has been utterly destroyed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course it is not in any way shaped like a square it is more like a crushed and bent rhomboid, but it is from this open mandala that the souks radiate.
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We have been warned about Aleppo's honey-tongued vendors, but are unprepared for the wonders of the souks - a labyrinthine network of dark passageways, which form the world's biggest covered market.
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While the souks are undoubtedly the place to shop, leather and suede goods can be found in many shopping areas.
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Textile and clothing factories moved in, and you could buy blouses, veils and pants, stacked in rumpled mountains in souks and markets, cheaper than you could make them at home.
LA Times Series on Life in Cairo, #5: Sewing Machine Repairman
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Rajinder Bhola's jewelry shop at the Gold Souk is buzzing with customers.
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He enters the Arthur Avenue Retail Market, an Italian souk of a place just off 187th, and glides past the hand-rolled cigars at La Casa Grande Tobacco, past Boiano's Food to Mike's Deli, famous for its "throwdown" eggplant parmigiana.
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I have spent more than my fair share of time in the souks of Africa and the Middle East.
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But tut tutting in the souk is one thing, actually doing stuff is another.
Matthew Yglesias » The Test
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The window was open and I could smell the baker's ovens below and hear the hum and clatter of the souk.
The Crossing-Place
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The spice souk to the east of the creek smells divine, as does the perfume souk near by.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perched at the stern, where she is manning one of the winches used to crank the ropes that control the main sails, Souka looks uneasy.
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Ames Laboratory senior physicist Costas Soukoulis, working with colleagues in Karlsruhe, Germany, designed a silver-based, mesh-like material that exhibits a refractive index of -0.6 at the red end of the visible spectrum.
The Burning Man in the High Castle
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Mixing the fresh spices you bought in the Moroccan souk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over three days and nights, popular Creole musical forms such as cadence-lypso, compass, zouk, soukous, and bouyon ring out alongside Creole-influenced reggae and soca.
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At the other end of the spectrum, you have backstreet Indians in the textile souk of Bastakia, where you can get an authentic Gujarati thali for £2 (they are easy to find, tucked among the fabric stalls).
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Today this cultural and vibrant country on Africa's northern coast has all the attractions of north Africa, without the hassle of the touts and invasive haggling in street markets and souks.
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Throughout his career he has experimented with diverse musical genres as rumba, soukous, salsa, highlife and Afrobeat.
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This is what the Arabs call a souk, or market, and similar places occur at every station in this chain of mountains as far as Yemen.
Travels in Arabia
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Aleppo's citadel and ancient souks are remnants of one of the oldest continually occupied cities on earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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China officials 'told firm to buy recalled gyoza' al-Gazel Souk, the main animal market in central Baghdad, Iraq
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Souk Sebt, a Saturday marketplace, was our overnight stop.
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_Dust and ashes, dust and ashes_, echoes from the gray walls, the mouldering thatch of the _souks_, the long lamentable song of the blind beggars sitting in rows under the feet of the camels and asses.
In Morocco
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Over three days and nights, popular Creole musical forms such as cadence-lypso, compass, zouk, soukous, and bouyon ring out alongside Creole-influenced reggae and soca.
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Shopping around for the right riad can be as fun or as fraught with disaster as going to the souk.
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Buy hand-stitched babouches from the souks in the Medina, or cutting-edge fashion and pottery design from Guéliz and Sidi Ghanem.
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A souk is a fantastic way to bring visitors to the north of England from all over the world to experience a unique shopping experience.
The Guardian World News
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That goes a long way in a Moroccan souk.
Times, Sunday Times
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The best souk is in Muscat, where stalls groan under the weight of antique silver (all sold by weight), tribal art from Zanzibar, dishdashas, frankincense and exotic perfumes.
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A few more steps along the palace walk brought me to the gold souk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its souk, or market, is huge, maze-like and intimidating, but you can pick up bargains.
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Lunch time in the souk is the opportunity to taste new foods.
Body on the line
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And don't forget the gold souk for some sparkle.
The Sun
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Its souks were some of the busiest in the Middle East and had been part of a thriving tourist industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most popular music in Africa in the XXth century was Soukous, derived from the Cuban rumba.
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The first volume concentrated on eight West African countries, but this second selection is an entirely Congolese mixture of rumba roots and early soukous.
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Naturally air conditioned by windtowers which catch the breezes then funnel them below, the Souk is a great marketplace in which to examine products from countless lands.
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I was beguiled by the romance and exotic atmosphere of the souks in Marrakech.
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He sees neglected horses and donkeys struggling with heavy loads in ancient souks and helps treat injured animals.
The Sun
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The capital is a pan-African city of Italianate squares and Arab souks.
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Throughout his career he has experimented with diverse musical genres as rumba, soukous, salsa, highlife and afrobeat.
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In the Zarbia souk men in flowing jalabas hawk carpets, pouffes, babouches the popular heelless leather slippers and brocades.
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Rigo and Syran's guitar lines are a revelation, with an almost Hawaiian lilt, sometimes doubled with Caçau de Queiroz clarinet to give a similar effect to electric soukous guitar where occasion calls.
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The caravanserais, souks, hammams and charitable institutions which share the same architectural language throughout the Muslim world are not compared or discussed.
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I called Ali Fahs, the farmer from Souk El Tayeb, to see if he was okay.
Day of Honey
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Hidden from view, its famous covered souks, markets, thread like capillaries for a reputed 30 km.
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There seems little of the chaotic revelry that typifies many other Arab souks.
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The streets were nearly empty, and the metal shutters on the Arab stalls in the souk were shut tight.
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The souks are always crowded; shopping downtown is very popular, as is strolling with friends along the busy streets.
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It's an open question whether an even bigger star in Africa, who's been dead even longer, the Congo's soukous master Franco, will ever get the same acclaim.
Franco: Africa's First Modern Pop Superstar
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And yet no sooner did I embrace the part, padding about in my jubbah and Ali Baba slippers, sipping mint tea, jingling my jewelry and letting my belly grow, than she accused me of being a crass vulgarian, an Oriental souk Jew with the taste for trumpery of a market trader from Waltham-stow.
Kalooki Nights
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Armenians, and others, unlike the Damascus souk, which is more a world of Sunni Arabs.
Doggdot.us
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Move on from the drama of the bustling souks to explore exquisite palaces and mosaic courtyards.
Times, Sunday Times
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By then, soukous as it was known, was the sound of the continent, and state radio played nothing but his songs for four days.
Franco emerges as the leader of OK Jazz
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But children are back in school in this town of some 40,000 people, a health clinic has reopened and business is picking up at the souk, or market.
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A maximum of five contestants vie in categories dedicated to dancehall, reggae, soukous, African, compass/racine, calypso, Latin, and gospel music.
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Prawns are tossed in olive oil and garlic in an iron souk flavoured with a subtle hint of tamarind.
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Those elections are a Hypersouk [souk is Arabic for traditional rural market] where votes change hands, are auctioned, sold off.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: Campaigning for the Disenchanted
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The souks, or markets, are a central part of life in Morocco.
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But only temporarily, because the depth returns, although when it does, the hints of Mitsouko's trademark buttery powderiness are replaced with what I would describe as peppery powderiness.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The focal point of any Middle Eastern city is the souk, or marketplace, a labyrinthine space of alleys, stalls, and tiny shops that also include ancient mosques and shrines.
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The mattress merchants carried them on their shoulders through the streets, and so did many merchants: the souk was a lively, dynamic scene.
Archive 2007-04-01
