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 do a great favor to the city of Cairo,” says Nahla Ahmed, an Egyptologist and the founder of Egypt Female Tour-Guide, the country’s first woman-led tour company.

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 ...

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… ...

Marina of the Zabbaleen leaves behind a real sense of the peoples’ lives it documents, and no easy response to them. Production company/international sales. Blue Nile Productions ...

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

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 ...