Souq Al Mina
Warren of covered stalls trading carpets, dates, spices and fresh catch beside a working fishing port.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Souq Al Mina in Abu Dhabi centers on a filmed moment in the carpet lane, where an Afghan trader named Moosa Khan refuses a customer's rising cash offers for a faded photograph taped above his stall. It traces how that black-and-white print, a cheap wholesale poster his family bought in Turkey years before he opened his shop in 1994, became something he says he would not sell for a million dirhams. The photograph shows the country's late founding ruler, a picture Khan says has hung over his stall since the day he opened it.
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