Ali Akbar started selling papers on the streets in 1974. He is still at it, winning over Parisians and presidents with persistence, humor and his signature catchphrase: “Ça y est!” By Roger Cohen ...
Ali Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank He is France's last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe. Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris's Left Bank ...
Paris: French President, Emmanuel Macron, will soon confer upon Ali Akbar, 73, France’s oldest and now the only street newsboy, the prestigious title of « Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite. » ...
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