Think of the Arab souk — the fabled marketplaces of the Middle East — and it immediately conjures up images straight from the Arabian Nights: mountains of yellow turmeric, shafts of light through lattices and the air thick with incense smoke.
These powerful associations have not been lost on the team from the United Arab Emirates that last month won the bid to host the World Expo 2020; exhibitors making the journey to Dubai in seven years will be setting up their pavilions in the biggest souk in history see more
Source: edition.cnn
Tags: business, Dubai's futuristic souk
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