Evening at the Souq

سوق شعبي

Souq Sh'bee: The Popular Market

aka Doha's famous Souq Waqif

 

listen -

 

many calls
to prayer

horses

Bob

 

guy in green

scoops and

disposes of

what falls when

horses are out
 

wait -

 



 

horses circle tile streets

over and over and over

clip clop

 sup -

 

 

 

salad and

bread with

fried halloumi cheese

served in a pan
salty

delicious

 

too hungry
for pictures

yum

wander -

 

 

into the souq's

sparkling

clean

alleyways

 

Pashmina?

You want pashmina?

Red pashimina?

Blue pashmina?

Pink, purple, green?

Pretty pretty, pretty

pashmina?

 

need a sign:

no pashmina, thanks

 

 follow -
 

 

ladies

shopping and

old guys in

burgundy vests

moving stuff

stall to stall

here to there

by wheelbarrow

 

one sits

in his cart as

ladies

pass

 watch -
 

 

demonstration:

how to create

new

old
stuff

gifts for

the folks back home

shop -
 

 

rows of bright

haloo:

candy

 

 buy - 
 

 

hats
 

plastic shoes, dolls, ceramic camels, bobble head toys, mother of pearl boxes, book stands, tee shirts, blankets, towels, pillows, kitchen utensils, blenders, bracelets, clocks, watches, baskets, lights, lamps, clothes, pots, pans, prayer rugs, abaya, sheyla, beads, coasters

whatever you want
it's here
somewhere
probably

 

Hanging out at

Souq Sh'bee

One cool winter evening

Where it's

All Things Qatar

(and other places)
All day

Every day

 

(after 8:30am-ish

and excepting Friday mornings

or any afternoon

between noon and 4pm-ish)