Gaza man spurns digital with collection of 25,000 newspapers - in pictures

Known as 'The Newspaperman', Palestinian Talal Taha has a trove dating back 50 years

Palestinian elderly Talal Taha reads a newspaper at his house in Gaza January 5, 2023. REUTERS / Mohammed Saleh

Palestinian Talal Taha began collecting newspapers in the 1970s

He still takes delivery of four Palestinian dailies: Al-Quds, Al-Ayyam, Al-Nahar and Felesteen

He writes his name, phone number and address on each of the papers before reading them

'Newspapers have history,' Mr Taha said. 'They are priceless'

'My interest grew during the Camp David agreement and the October war in 73,' he said

'You are finished,' he tells people who say newspapers are finished

Reading the paper 'is completely different from viewing images (on mobile phones)', Mr Taha says

'Any old paper that you hold and look at is completely different from photographs'

Mr Taha keeps every piece of paper he is given. He also has a collection of 3,000 invitations

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