i bought 2 GORGEOUS afghani pillowcases (no photos cuz they dont do these things justice – they’re really nice). the afghani guy from selling them went to FIT (in nyc) and lived on orchard street for 8 years. he has a store in NYC on the LES which i think i’ve been to and one here in dubai. it was nice to chat w/ him. b4 i go back to the us i’ll buy a kilim or carpet from him here and he’ll have it shipped to the store there.
maren and i also had our names written in arabic calligraphy by a 72 yr old graphic designer who has a studio in the bastikiya. he’s been doing commercial graphic design for decades and has some of his commercial ad work on the walls. he also sells nice calligraphy framed. he was really nice.
we bopped around the textile souk, the cheap crap souk, took an abra to the spice souk, passed by the gold souk…
… then took taxi home. dumped our stuff then went to ibn batattu cuz we were gonna buy groceries for dinner. but we ended up eating there.
i also got some barrettes w/ rhinestones on them 🙂 i like things that sparkle and glitter.
betty in dubai, august 2008 - feb 2009 
i want one!
@ KC
This is how you write KC in arabic:
كاي سي
cool!