"Mohamed Sadeq, the proprietor, is appropriately proud: "I preserve and trade in anything related to knowledge and culture, so long as it comes on paper, from theatre tickets to film posters, musical notation, newspapers and books, whatever comes in paper..." Distinct from some 130 second-hand bookshops in Azbakia in that he only deals in genuine rare publications, this charismatic man started out in Al-Azhar, where his father relocated from Darb Al-Gamamiz."

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