Jordan mourns “Al-Muktabji” and “Al-Warraq”, the most famous in its history: Hassan Abu Ali
Jordan mourned, on the official and popular levels, the most famous bookseller in its history, known as the "Minister of Popular Culture", who was honored officially, royally and popularly more than once.
The late Hassan Abu Ali was the owner of a bookstore in the center of the capital, Amman, known as Downtown. During fifty years of persistent and stubborn presence, despite political and economic fluctuations, he was able to withstand and remain a shrine to thousands of seekers of books and knowledge.
Abu Ali also had a close relationship with hundreds of Jordanian and Arab writers, intellectuals, writers and artists, who mourned him yesterday with warm feelings and great sadness.
Yesterday, Queen Rania Al Abdullah mourned Hassan Abu Ali, the owner of the Arab culture booth, who has always been considered a Jordanian cultural figure, and one of the celebrities and figures of cultural work in downtown Amman.
And the Jordanian queen wrote in a tweet on Twitter, "You planted a love of reading in many who used to visit you in the center of the country... May God have mercy on Hassan Abu Ali and put him in his vast paradise."
Arab and Jordanian intellectuals and writers also mourned those who described him as the Maktabji, Al-Warraq and downtown owner, and the Jordanian Minister of Culture, Haifa Al-Najjar, mourned yesterday, Friday, Hassan Abu Ali, who moved to his mercy yesterday morning after a struggle with illness.
Today, Al-Najjar said, we lost Abu Ali, the Jordanian cultural stature, who represented the spirit of Jordan and its history, and served as the guardian of culture in the heart of Amman, gathering in his “booth” the elites of culture and politics since the fifties of the last century.
She added, "We will continue to remember our gathering in his library, which is full of many important books, with a solid weight of knowledge, and Abu Ali will remain in the conscience of Jordanians as a landmark of Amman, and his library will remain a trust in our necks, we pledge to care and sustainability, so that the memory of its founder and patron remains alive in the hearts of all Jordanians."
The late Hassan al-Bir, nicknamed Abu Ali, was born in 1944, and is considered one of the most prominent landmarks in downtown, and many Omanis consider him to be a minister of popular culture in Jordan. On the acquisition of books, and his rejection of the principle of profit in exchange for selling books, the prices of books in his booth were affordable for everyone, and writers from the previous generation are grateful to him because he was able during the period of martial law to secretly supply writers and intellectuals with many books that are affected by the ban.
The late was honored by King Abdullah II, in appreciation of his role in serving the Jordanian cultural movement, when he was bestowed with the Independence Order of the fourth degree, and a silver medal of the second degree on the occasion of the celebration of Amman as the capital of Arab culture in 2002.
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