IN STEREO

This street entered the UNESCO [World Heritage List]. Your role is heritage preservation, and you play with the street! I mean, do you think that you’re preserving the heritage? No, you’ve changed heritage features! It’s supposed to stay as it is! This is my own opinion. I mean, what are they doing? They want to dig; they want to change the street’s stones. They want to change it, all of it. They want to put curb stones with iron [poles] to prevent cars from parking, and you can only [go] at a specific time. They want to oblige me to go to the market at the time [the street is] open. We’re with the change, and we want the neighbourhood to go for the better, but with a solution that satisfies all parties. And I’m not telling you that all the blame is on the politicians.

[It’s] also on the neighbourhood. I mean, they don’t want to open [a store] and make effort. I opened 15 years ago, and I’m steadfast and open. I mean, look how Karkafa Street was when they opened it. One opened, a second one opens, a third one opens. Maybe here it’ll be like Karkafa Street. But here [people] want to open and collect money in the same day. They want [results] directly. And people have just got bored. I mean, every politician comes telling us new decisions [but] nobody cares about the people, not about what they want. Currently? We didn’t see anything. We [do] want [change]. I mean, maybe I benefit most if tourism comes. But we get tired of [just] speech. – Nuha