Q: (CNN) -- Mohammed Alshaya owns more high street brands than most fashion addicts could stuff in their closets.

Mohammed Alshaya, CEO of Alshaya's retail division, tells MME he sees a new mindset in the Gulf

Topshop, Coast, NEXT and River Island are just some of the big names he's imported from the United Kingdom to shopping centers in the Middle East.

As chief executive of M.H. Alshaya, he knows what sells: tried and tested Western brands that will appeal to local shoppers.

And his empire is not limited to clothing. In the past month, he's taken Mothercare and The Body Shop to Central Eastern Europe.

With the addition of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, M.H. Alshaya now operates in 16 markets including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey, Poland and Russia.

John Defterios spoke with Mohammed Alshaya, and started by asking him for his thoughts on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plans for a single currency.

(JD): I would imagine as a retail operation you'd be a huge proponent of a single currency within the GCC. Is it realistic within the next 4 to 5 years?

(MA): I think it can be, as long as there is a will of the leaders to get together and decide. It is a huge leap towards efficiency, conciliation, getting closer between the six countries. One single Central Bank that governs and regulates is much better than the current six, I believe.

(JD): Have you ever done any calculations of what impact it would have on your back office operations?

1. Mohammed Alshaya
2. Alshaya
3. CEO of retail division
4. Topshop, Coast, NEXT and River Island
5. the Middle East
6. Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia
7. 16
8. John Defterios
9. Gulf Cooperation Council
10. six
11. 4 to 5 years

Numbered questions:
1. Who own lots of high street brands?
2. What company does he work for?
3. What is his title?
4. What does he imports?
5. Where to?
6. And where else?
7. How many countries?
8. Who interviewed him?
9. Who did they say needed a common money?
10. How many nations are in it?
11. How much time will it take them to make it happen?

Q: Saint Paul (; abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2016, the city's estimated population was 304,442. Saint Paul is the county seat of Ramsey County, the smallest and most densely populated county in Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state's largest city. Known as the "Twin Cities", the two form the core of MinneapolisSaint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.52 million residents.

Founded near historic Native American settlements as a trading and transportation center, the city rose to prominence when it was named the capital of the Minnesota Territory in 1849. The Dakota name for Saint Paul is "Imnizaska". Though Minneapolis (Bdeota) is better-known nationally, Saint Paul contains the state government and other important institutions. Regionally, the city is known for the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild, and for the Science Museum of Minnesota. As a business hub of the Upper Midwest, it is the headquarters of companies such as Ecolab. Saint Paul, along with its Twin City, Minneapolis, is known for its high literacy rate. It was the only city in the United States with a population of 250,000 or more to see an increase in circulation of Sunday newspapers in 2007.

1. 1849
2. 304,442
3. 2016
4. Science Museum of Minnesota
5. St. Paul
6. no
7. Minneapolis
8. Imnizaska
9. Minnesota Wild
10. 3.52 million
11. no
12. 2nd
13. MinneapolisSaint Paul
14. Bdeota
15. yes
16. Upper Midwest
17. yes
18. 2007
19. Ecolab.
20. 16th

Numbered questions:
1. when was it named capital?
2. what is it's population?
3. as of when?
4. what museum would you find there?
5. how is it abbreviated?
6. are the people there uneducated?
7. what is it's twin city?
8. what is it's Dakota name?
9. it is home of which sports team?
10. what is the population of the two cities?
11. Does St. Paul have the most population in the country?
12. what rank does it hold in the state?
13. what is the largest city in the state?
14. whats the dakota name for Minneapolis?
15. is it considered a business hub?
16. of where?
17. has it seen an increase in newspaper sales?
18. when?
19. what company has their headquarters there?
20. what are the twin cities ranked as in terms of Metropolitan area?

Q: Chapter XV.

Return to the Congo Mouth.

In the evening there was a palaver.

I need hardly say that my guide, after being paid to show me Nsundi, never had the slightest intention to go beyond the Yellala. Irritated by sleeping in the open air, and by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen, he and his moleques had sat apart all day, the picture of stubborn discontent, and

"Not a man in the place But had discontent written large in his face."

I proposed to send back a party for rum, powder, and cloth to the extent of 150, or half the demand, and my factotum, Selim, behaved like a trump. Gidi Mavunga, quite beyond self-control, sprang up, and declared that, if the Mundele would not follow him, that obstinate person might remain behind. The normal official deprecation, as usual, made him the more headstrong; he rushed off and disappeared in the bush, followed by a part of his slaves, the others crying aloud to him, "Wenda!"-- get out! Seeing that the three linguisters did not move, he presently returned, and after a furious address in Fiote began a Portuguese tirade for my benefit. This white man had come to their country, and, instead of buying captives, was bent upon enslaving their Mfumos; but that "Branco" should suffer for his attempt; no "Mukanda" or book (that is, letter) should go down stream; all his goods belonged of right to his guide, and thus he would learn to sit upon the heads of the noblesse, with much of the same kind.

1. rum
2. powder
3. cloth to the extent of 150
4. Nsundi
5. Yellala
6. sleeping in the open air
7. by the total want of hospitality amongst the bushmen
8. apart
9. Gidi Mavunga
10. in the bush
11. a part of his slaves
12. Gidi Mavunga,
13. enslaving their Mfumos
14. XV
15. Return to the Congo Mouth.
16. a palaver.
17. Mundele
18. Wenda!"-- get out
19. three
20. book

Numbered questions:
1. What did the narrator want to send back a party for?
2. And what else?
3. And anything else?
4. Where was the guide paid to show the narrator?
5. What did he have not intention of going beyond?
6. What was one of the things that irritated him?
7. And what else?
8. So where did he and the moleques sit?
9. Who was beyond self control and jumped up?
10. Where did he disappear to then?
11. Who followed him?
12. Who started a tirade in Portuguese?
13. Instead of buying captives, what was the white man bent upon?
14. What chapter is this?
15. What is the title of the passage?
16. What was there in the evening?
17. Who did Gidi Mavunga think might follow him?
18. What did some of the slaves cry out to him?
19. How many linguisters were there?
20. What is "Mukanda" ?