The Zabbaleen's activities have enormous positive repercussions for the environment. They reduce the need to produce new plastic, 99% of which is made from fossil fuels.

The Zabbaleen’s waste management system is a finely tuned collaboration shaped by necessity and tradition. At dawn, the men set out into Cairo’s streets, navigating the sprawling city with an array of ...

Occurred on December 1, 2021 / Cairo, Egypt Info from Licensor: In Cairo, there's a suburb called Mokottam that is better known as "Garbage City." Why? Because its inhabitants, mostly Coptic ...

“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.

Ahmed explains that the Zabbaleen descended from farmers who migrated to Cairo from Northern Egypt in the 1940s. They settled in makeshift camps on the city’s outskirts and began collecting ...

Eloise Stark is a Franco-British journalist specializing in international news and travel. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Lines, Euronews, and Metro UK. When she isn’t noisily ...

An experience inviting users on a scent-guided journey to relive the history of their culture through a series of oud aromas is included in this school show by American University in Dubai.

We can learn a lot from the Zabbaleen community in Cairo, Egypt, which has been a pioneer in recycling and waste management for decades and has succeeded where multinational corporations have failed.

During the lifetime of the Prophet Mohammed in the 7th century, Middle Eastern countries like Egypt and Syria had large Christian majorities. Four centuries later, the first Crusade was fought in a ...