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"Three more days of traveling brought us to Aleppo. Aleppo I knew. Everyone in Baghdad knew Aleppo. It was the commercial center of Syria, and the town to which my uncle planned soon to send his seventh son."

After leaving al-Anbar, Buran went to Aleppo. At Aleppo Buran learned lots about trading from Jinha. Aleppo is also one of the largest trading cities.

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"I remained in Cyprus, buying and selling for another week, then moved on. I sailed to Sidon on the Lebanese coast, and after several days traveled by caravan inland, back to Damascus, crossing the vast, miraculous garden that careful irrigation had won out of the measureless sweep of desert Arabia, upon whose edge the city perches. The suqs of Damascus were full of ivory-inlaid wood, embroidered damask, Chinese silk, gum Arabic from the south, Indian spices, lapis lazuli and turquoise from central Asia, and pearls from Bahrain. But I concentrated on perfumes and herbs, which were sold there in greater abundance than anywhere else. …

What I bought in Damascus I sold first in Tripoli and then in Antioch. Antioch is famous for its vineyards, but there was no demand for wine where I was going, so I left that product for purchase by the traders heading for Egypt and the mysterious foreign cities of the west. Instead, I departed with vials of essence pressed from the lilies that fill the fields surrounding the city, and bales of licorice root."

After leaving Tyre, Buran goes to Alexandria, where she meets her cousin Hassan. After leaving Alexandria, she goes to Cyprus, where she meets her other cousin Ali. She stayed and did business there for a while, and then left to go to Sidon. After trading in Sidon, she went to Damascus, then to Antioch. After Antioch she went to Aleppo. Everywhere she went she bought items that were fairly common in one area, and brought them to a new area to sell at a much higher price. Since she was no longer disguised as a woman, she had others do the actual business while she conducted it all from behind veils. She made more money by traveling and selling herbs and perfumes and other items in six months then two years in Tyre. Although she did not know, Mahmud was trying to follow her the entire time, but eventually lost her trail before finding her again back at Baghdad.

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Three more days of traveling brought us to Aleppo. Aleppo I knew. Everyone in Baghdad knew Aleppo. It was the commercial center of Syria, and the town to which my uncle planned soon to send his seventh son. Caravan routes passed through not only to Baghdad, but also to Persia and India in the East, Asia Minor and Europe in the west, and Palestine and Egypt in the south.

I trailed through the city’s huge bazaar, listening as Jihha gossiped and bargained with shopkeepers. I kept both my ears wide open as he conducted whole sale business with traveling merchants right in the courtyards of khans and caravansaries, where the cloth, dried fruit, and licorice roots of Aleppo itself were traded for the wealth of the world.

After traveling from al-Anbar, the caravan that Buran was traveling on reached Aleppo. Here, Buran learned all she could about trading and such from Jihha by listening. This was the first large trading city that Buran went to, and she learned much from it. After traveling from Aleppo with the caravan, they went to Antioch. After Antioch, they traveled to Ladhiqiyah, Beirut, and then Damascus. From Damascus Buran traveled to Tyre, where she set up her business as the man Nasir. At every location she went to, she learned something about the trade and the people by listening and learning, and Jihha taught her much about business.

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"Accompanied by Salih and Muhsin, and dressed in trousers and shirt of fine scarlet silk, I entered the shop. One of the assistants caught sight of me as soon as we came through the door. Unceremoniously, he left the man on whom he was waiting and came toward us. With elaborate politeness, he bowed low. "Can I help you, lady?" he asked. "You've come to the right place if you seek the finest women goods that Cyprus has to offer."

It shows how when she went shopping she met/reunited with her cousins, but they had no clue it was her. Buran purposefully went to different cities in the Middle East to see her cousins and to get her little bit of revenge on them.

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“There is something similar-the air, perhaps, or the light- about all towns near the sea. Alexandria was not altogether different from Tyre.”

The atmosphere of the port cities is all the same, and it shows how she is longing to be back at Tyre with Mahmud. Alexandria is also where Buran met Hassan again, and prompted her trip to see all her cousins and get her revenge, if only sub-consciously at first.

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"I knew it was our wall because Abu Rashid's and Abu Tahir's houses on either side were exactly  as they had been when I left, at least so far as I could tell from the street. But even from the street it was clear that more than a little had happened to the house of Abu al-Banat. The wall had been whitewashed. Large earthenware pots of sweet basil stood at intervals atop it. The squeaking wooden gate had been removed and replaced with a new one of shiny black wrought iron."

The shows that Buran's family was  doing very well while Buran was off on her journey. All the money they had received from Buran when she sent it home shows that her family made improvements on their house. Although it is not said in this quote, Buran's father refused to leave the house even though they could afford a larger one somewhere else because he grew up in the house and it was special to him.

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"We walked along the quay toward Sharie al-Khalifa, for even on the hottest day a breeze blew in from the harbor, making the docks the pleasantest place in town.

The street we sought was a short stroll inland from the quay. Amin hurried ahead; Uthman and I followed dutifully. We came to the best suq in Tyre, the one that featured the highest-quality merchandise at the most expensive prices. In the suq we passed the jewelry stall of Abu Uthman; a few paces beyond it was a large, airy, well-arranged shop featuring unguents, medicines, and perfumes."

In this quote, Mahmud describes the Sharie al-Khalifa, which is a street in Tyre along the quay (docks). This street is where many wealthy people of Tyre have their shops, and includes the best suq (marketplace) in Tyre. It is here that Nasir had set up his shop, and was obviously very well off to have such a nice business in such an expensive and well-renowned place. This street is very wealthy area, and very important to the plot of the story. It was in Tyre that Nasir and Mahmud met, and where Nasir made much of his fortune.

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"The suqs of Damascus were full of ivory-inlaid wood, embroidered damask, Chinese silk, gum Arabic from the south, Indian spices, lapis lazuli and turquoise from central Asia, and pearls from Bahrain."

Damascus focuses on essentials and materials instead of jewelry and aesthetics. Damascus is also where one of the seven sons, “Ali” opened his shop at.

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“Night after  night Nasir and I walked next to the water, enveloped by the warm black night. The only sounds that reached us were the wavelets slapping gently against the sides of the boats lying at anchor in the harbor and the creaking of their planks and rigging.”

This shows the Tyre is a warm place next to the ocean, or a sea.It also shows that there were probably a lot of fishermen in Tyre.

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“The narrow, unpaved street was lined on both sides with tiny shops connected to each other beneath a long arcade.”

This shows that the side of Baghdad where Buran lives is very unattended to, and  is not fixed ever. It shows the reader how Burans family is very poor.