Nearby Arab Street is a good place for batik prints, sarongs and bamboo baskets.
He was beloved by that fabled Arab street because he indulged its ruinous passions and alibis.
Such talk has boosted his popularity on the Arab street and among pious Turks.
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On the Arab street, Mr Erdogan's salvoes against Israel over the Palestinians have made him a hero.
Mr Obama put himself on the side of the Arab Street in Egypt.
On Israel, Mr Erdogan has certainly at times played to the Arab street.
Arab governments will seek popularity at home by feeding a harder line on Israel to the ever-hungry Arab street.
Yet Mr Erdogan owes his popularity on the Arab street partly to Israel-bashing.
He could no more control the Arab street than he could the behind-the-scenes machinations of a tin-pot thug like Vladimir Putin.
In the past most Arab leaders were dictators, able to take a path far different from the views of the Arab street.
In his last internal letters, Bin Laden complained that his Western arch-competitors were winning the marketing battle for hearts and minds in the Arab Street.
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Iran, which once held so much sway, is not talked of as a model: theocracy does not appeal to the youngsters on the Arab street.
America could press Arab leaders and banks not to provide or transfer money, and some might agree, but that would further inflame an already angry Arab street.
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Far from the Arab street, or press, rising against the U.S., the Arab media are replete with introspection and even self-criticism of how the Arab world mishandled Saddam.
That could give way to a permanent resistance that creates even more pressure for chance, further radicalizes the Arab street and creates even more anger at the United States.
Simply put, both in the popular Arab street and in parliaments themselves, Islamist parties are in a stronger position to advance their political agendas than they have ever been before.
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It does put Mr Obama on the side of the Arab Street more eloquently than his declaration that backing democracy is America's top priority (funny that Saudi Arabia didn't get a mention).
The receptive Arab Street lives in a perpetual world of asymmetrical thinking - nursing fantasies, inventing false grievances, and above all demanding from the West what it would never offer to others.
It is the "Arab Street's" overwhelming animosity towards Israel that causes the pragmatists to argue that Israel's best play is to cut deals with Arab dictators who rule with an iron fist.
Public opinion in many Arab countries is rather more sympathetic to the Iranians than are their leaders - the proverbial "Arab street" seeing Iran often as a rather more active champion of causes like that of the Palestinians.
Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, occupy Wall Street has evolved into a catch-all movement of frustration.
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Many people these days speak of leaderless movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring as undeniably good things.
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Revolutionaries organize revolts from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.
Because the regime is afraid of the police switching loyalties, it has imported crowd control from other Arab countries so demonstrators on street can't communicate with them.
With allusions to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and other current events, the video declares, human beings are becoming a collective organism able to influence social change, entrepreneurship, and commerce.
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But the street art of the Arab Spring has unsettled the world of contemporary Arab art because it has helped unsettle the basic facts of political life in the Arabic-speaking world.
Saj-Nicole Joni: You and Morten Hansen started your research for your new book, Great by Choice, about nine years ago before the BP oil spill, the Great Recession, the frightening instability of the euro, the nuclear meltdown in Japan, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street ever took place.
Also repeating a theme Romney touched on earlier, Obama made reference to the Tunisian street vendor credited for starting the Arab Spring by setting himself on fire.
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When I arrived for my interview with Abol Fotoh on a mild, sunny day in January 2007 at a grand building housing the Arab Medical Union just off a busy Cairo street, I was ushered into a patients' waiting room.
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