In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage City, Magada Bamy’s hands move so swiftly that they nearly blur as she sifts through a bag of trash. “Grade A, grade B,” she mutters to herself, placing the ...

Recycling Cairo's trash for free while providing employment to tens of thousands, the Zabbaleen have much to teach other cash-strapped cities. In the scorching afternoon heat, a few large refuse ...

Marína of the Zabbaleen, by Egyptian filmmaker Engi Wassef, is a documentary film that explores the world of seven-year-old Marína in the Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. An ...

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 ...

Three curly-haired little girls – only three or four years of age – shuffled past me on the trash-covered street. Their faces were smeared with dirt and their feet, shoeless. They held in their tiny ...

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 ...

Somewhere buried under all those bags of trash is the Egyptian city of Zabbaleen, where garbage reigns supreme. It looks like an object lesson, warning us of some impending garbage apocalypse, but ...

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 ...

Coptic Christians make up 11 to 15 per cent of Egypt's population and are the largest Christian community in the Middle East. The Zabbaleen, known in Arabic as 'the garbage collectors,' are one of the ...