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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Each day Mussa Nazmy, 15, gets up at dawn and drives the family donkey ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Cairo’s Manshiet Nasser district, a ‘Zabbaleen’ worker collects and sorts waste using the same methods the community has used for more than a century. Photograph: Lucien Migné From Egypt to ...

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 ...