The Lebanon Daily Star profiles 68-year-old traveling bookseller Hajj Abdel-Jaleel Daher, who has been moving from one Lebanese region to another for over 50 years, peddling all kinds of books to make a living. “Selling books is the job I have enjoyed since 1956,” Daher told The Daily Star . Displaying hundreds of books on a corner near the Martyrs Mosque in Sidon, Daher said: “I do the same thing in Beirut, Tyre and Bint Jbeil.”
Though Daher enjoys going from one shuk to another each day, he complained that his sole competitor was the Internet. “But true readers cannot get rid of books,” he said. “I buy my books from small and big firms … I have old and new editions … I actually have whatever you need,” he said.