Halabi Bookshop

In the Al-Danna area of Tarik El-Jdeideh in Beirut, if you are looking for a book and you ask a passerby where you should go, they will surely send you to Abdallah Halabi.
Abdallah has been collecting and selling books for nearly 30 years. The shop is older than that though, having previously been a small mini-mart run by his father. At first, it was only a shop for magazines and newspapers. But an idea that had been put into his head by his former boss, a book lover, had begun to percolate. Books. Lots and lots of books. 
"Some people collect stamps, some collect flags. I collect books," he says matter-of-factly, a subtle smile hiding under his gray mustache.