The Zabbaleen, which means "garbage collectors" in Egyptian Arabic, resides in the Cairo neighborhood of Mokattam - dubbed the "Garbage City." The group has established one of the world's most ...

The Zabbaleen (meaning literally “garbage people”) village at the base of the Mokattam cliffs began around 1969 when the Cairo governor decided to move all of the garbage collectors to a ...

The Zabbaleen people of Mansheyat Nasir have developed one of the world’s most efficient recycling systems, turning trash into treasure.

Each day Mussa Nazmy, 15, gets up at dawn and drives the family donkey cart down the hill into downtown Cairo. Then he goes house to house loading trash into a basket on his back, carts it home and ...

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With no official sanitation services, Cairo’s 18 million residents have for decades relied on zabbaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) to collect their waste, which the zabbaleen do with ...

Who knew that people could love their gar bage so much that they grow angry when it is taken from them? Meet the zabbaleen, the subject of “Garbage Dreams,” Mai Iskander’s fascina… ...

This unbelievable city piled high with trash is a real place called Garbage City, outside of Cairo in Egypt. It’s populated by a community of workers called Zabbaleen, who personally collect ...

A marginalized minority of Coptic Christians in a Muslim-majority country, the Zabbaleen were forcibly relocated to the outskirts of Cairo by the government in 1969. After creating a new home at ...

The Zabbaleen people of Mansheyat Nasir have developed one of the world’s most efficient recycling systems, turning trash into treasure.