Hassan Masri-Cairo
"It is a difficult profession, but I don't like giving it up," said the 50-year-old Khaled Zaki, sitting in front of his shop, which he inherited from his father on al-Mu'izz Street, the religion of Fatimid, one of Cairo's oldest and most famous streets.
Khaled sells in his shop all that is old, as his profession depends on collecting what he can from the old things that are usually in the houses and the owners decided to get rid of them, so it comes his turn where he gets these items to sell them to the amateurs after he maintains and fixes the faults.
Khaled says he inherited the profession from his father, who opened the shop in 1948, about 70 years ago, and since then they sell everything that is old, explaining that the biggest turnout comes from foreign tourists who are interested in antiques and old things.
But the man complains that the weakness of tourism coming to Egypt in recent years has negatively affected his work, and expresses the hope that tourism will recover and return customers as they were.