The al-Maa Bookstore (or Mahall al-Maa in Arabic) is owned by Hamzeh AlMaaytah, a fourth-generation book seller. He was a lover of books," AlMaaytah, 36, tells CNN. "It's a second-hand bookstore that takes the words 'second hand' very seriously," Alan Elbaum, who discovered AlMaaytah's store while studying Arabic in Jordan, tells CNN. Alan Elbaum, who discovered al-Maa Bookstore while studying in Jordan, tells CNN he was astonished by AlMaaytah's "cave of books." Which does make it difficult to run a bookstore," Elbaum says.

Source: CNN June 01, 2017 01:18 UTC