Whenever I take a tour of Sharjah's industrial zone, I find my eyes turned to Yemeni and left to monitor the names of exotic shops, so I was attracted to know the motives and reasons for naming these names, especially the contradictory ones that do not correspond to the product offered, such as Plato Tire Trading! Or Ronaldinho to sell electronics!
I always thought that if the name of the shop was not related to the selling product, it naturally reflected something in the owner's personality, or was closely related in his life, so I decided to make sure this hypothesis myself, by taking a quick tour there, to then pick The names of the shops were random, and the owners asked about the story of the name of the shop, and I first signed the «Ishtar air conditioning trade».
I immediately called the shop owner (Saad), and asked him this question and he answered that Queen Ishtar is a symbol of one of the ancient civilizations that ruled Iraq and other countries in ancient times, and as an Iraqi nationality he is proud of this history, and then answered me cleverly and comprehensively by saying «strange name is enough! »The call ended.
Then I went to look for another strange name in one of the narrow streets, and while I was driving slowly my turtle, I saw on my left side a car repair shop called «Socrates to repair electric cars and air conditioners». I stopped aside, and went to the workers there to find out about the owner of this workshop, and they told me that the owner who named the workshop is Salem Ashour, and that 15 years ago! According to the Brazilian football player Socrates, an expression of his passion for sports and the universality of the name of Socrates among the fans of the round witch, and after a period of Salem sold the shop to another, and in turn sold it to his current owner Mohammed Nubi, and remained the name «Socrates» unshakable with all these economic fluctuations !
Despite the heat intensified, and after another 10 minutes of cultural lounging, and found two adjacent shops, one named «Shibu» followed by «Narita» car accessories trade, and after a quick search in the platform «Uncle Google» discovered that Shibu and Narita names of Japanese cities I did not even know about them that moment.
Then I stopped at an electronics store called Accra, and the same mechanism looked for the meaning of the word. It turned out to mean 'thank you' in one of the African languages, so I immediately concluded that the owner of the shop must be from the continent. That, when I entered and found them all of Pakistani nationality, and when I asked them about the owner discovered that his name Zubair and Pakistani nationality too! Then I wondered why the name was amazed.I knew that the real name of the shop was 'Iqra', but because of a typo turned into 'Accra', I laughed and tried to relieve them that the trouble of the label did not go down the drain, and then I said to myself 'Enough', I must end this experience Now I have had enough cognitive glut. Trade has proven its ability to tolerate more than anything else throughout history, and the industrial area of Sharjah is a precious cultural treasure, where the shops of all kinds and types, a world enclosed within a world, and taking a light tour around it will make you feel like a real Wikipedia, Embodied in the form of an industrial zone! If you don't believe it, just read the shop signs around you.
• Trade has proven its ability to tolerate more than anything else throughout history, and the industrial zone is a precious cultural treasure, where the shops of all kinds, a world involved in a world.
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