House of Curiosity... » Newspaper sellers http://madas.jordanplanet.org Casting the first stone Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:08:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Newspaper sellers, بياعين الجرايد http://madas.jordanplanet.org/2010/01/21/1167/ http://madas.jordanplanet.org/2010/01/21/1167/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:16:42 +0000 Madas http://madas.jordanplanet.org/?p=1167 “منشان الله اشتري مني” قال لي محمد، الشاب اللي بيبيع الجرايد عند اشارة بيتي. ” اشتري مني خليني اشتري غدا للولاد، والله لسا ما استفتحنا و انت شايفة هالفياضانات”

شو اللحظة اللي تحولوا بياعين الجرايد من اصحاب مهنه لشحادين؟ وقت غلاء الأسعار اللي ضرب الأردن ب2007 و 2008؟ ولا الأزمة المالية ب2009؟ ولا كانت الأممر دائما هيك، بس انا ما كنت منتبهة؟

“Food’s sake buy from me” said Mohamed, the guy that sells newspapers at the traffic light near my house. “Buy from me, let me buy lunch for my children, I swear, I have not sold anything yet and you see these floods”

When was the moment that newspaper sellers were transformed into beggars? Was it the rise in prices that hit Jordan in 2007 and 2008? Or was it the financial crisis that hit the world in 2009? Or this is how it always have been, but I was oblivious?

 

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