On the street of Palestine, which is located on the street of Omar al-Mukhtar in the east of Gaza City, he sees the light of a candle shining from a small tent, and as soon as he approaches, he is surprised by an old man holding a worn-out book. .
Those books were not bought by the Satini Saleh Joujou
(Abu Wahid) from a library, or get it from a friend as a gift, but collect the pages from the dumps, which represents his hobby 10 years ago, to alleviate the state of homelessness he has lived since 1998, because of the occupation that demolished his home.
(Abu Wahid), who had the title of share, lived alone throughout his life, as he did not marry, and had no one to support him in this world, as he used to sleep on the sidewalks, which secretly hidden him discovered 10 years ago, He spent searching papers and collecting them in various books.
Tent of the «Library»
(Abu Wahid) shops and small palaces in the field of Palestine, reading next to a candle placed next to a bed made of wood, and next to a small vehicle where the collection of books that I spent part of his age in search of scattered pages.
They demolished our house
"Since 1998, I have been sleeping in the streets, after our house was demolished by Israel's practices. I have no one left of my brothers. I have not found a breast that will guarantee only the road," he said. "At night I slept among the alleys and the walls of the shops and the houses. In the day I would go around looking for any source of income. Sometimes I would sell hot drinks to buyers and shopkeepers in a small cart that I prepared to keep the books I collected."
"One time I was looking at waste dumps for cardboard to ignite, to draw warmth from it, I found a number of pages of faded, scattered books I took and read, the remnants of a novel called Fida. I was impressed with its contents and decided to search for The rest of its pages in other waste dumps, and I succeeded, and that was my beginning in the collection of books and novels ».
Change direction
After collecting the "redemption", Abu Wahid decided to change the direction of his life to what is useful to him. Since 2008 he wandered among waste dumps in various areas, up to 80, to collect old books and novels.
He explains the mechanism of collecting the pages of the books he is looking for: «I collect the pages of books from waste dumps, and be wet and dirty, and I dry and clean, and then read carefully, in order to collect them again in a neat and orderly».
The old Palestinian notes that the books he collected won the admiration of his friends, as well as the shopkeepers when they read them, prompting him to reveal recently those books and books he collected, and to launch an initiative to preserve novels and books from extinction, until it became a source of old books, copies and their first editions.
The effort he leads
(Abu Wahid), and the initiative he supervises himself, added a change - albeit a simple one - to his life, creating a tent of tin and wood, in the alley of Omar Mukhtar Street, keeping hundreds of hard-won books, The place, and another part placed in paper covers, to be his tent is the shelter and shelter of his novels also.
«Fida» .. the beginning
Among the books collected by Abouhid is the novel "Fida", which he successfully reclassified. He also collected a collection of poems by the late poet Nizar Qabbani and a collection of novels by Egyptian writer Ihsan Abdul Qadous. The life of writer Gibran Khalil Gibran, in addition to novels and books, foreign and Arab, and Indian stories.
10
Years spent
Elderly Ghazzawi
in search
On paper, collect it
In various books.