Ahmad Kayed, once a 10-year-old immigrant newsboy in the 1950s, has been a vendor at one of downtown Amman’s last five surviving bookstalls for nearly half a century. In 1978, the Amman Municipality established over 20 bookstalls to support the Jordan Press Foundation through rent revenue, and to provide Amman’s newspaper hawkers, like Kayed, with set stalls to sell newspapers, magazines and books, according to locals. Kayed spoke with The ...