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On the outskirts of a Cairo neighborhood called Maadi is a collection of cardboard and metal shacks housing hundreds of poor families. The illegal settlement is called Tora and the people who live ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Hermann Huber, who has lived in Cairo for a longer time, made portraits during his stay of the community of the Zabbaleen, the local rubbish collectors (Arabic: Zabbal). The result is a series of ...

There was no escape from the dust in Cairo. That was especially true in Manshiyat Nasser, known to visitors as Cairo’s “Garbage City.” Passing through the narrow streets, the stench was almost ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Large Christian communities are not abundant in Muslim-dominated Egypt. One ...

For years, a small Egyptian Coptic community known as the Zabbaleen has turned trash into treasure by recycling 80 percent of the capital Cairo's waste. The Zabbaleen, which means "garbage collectors" ...

At first glance this HD-CAM-shot documentary might seem dismal: 11-year-old Marina and her irrepressible siblings live on an inhabited rubbish dump outside Cairo. Yet Engi Wassef’s part-Tribeca-funded ...

This year the joint BBC and RGS prize for the most adventurous and unusual dream travel idea - a Journey of a Lifetime - went to Jessica Boyd and Bill Finnegan. Jessica and Bill made a journey to the ...