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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAIROCAIRO — The pile of trash overwhelmed the median divider on Ahmed Zaki Street and spilled into oncoming traffic – egg shells, rotten eggplants, soiled diapers, bottles, broken furniture, junked ...

The community that garbage built occupies an abandoned quarry on the edge of this teeming capital, a hidden neighborhood few outsiders ever see, by turns appalling and wondrous. Sewage-mired alleyways ...

At the base of Cairo's Mokkatam Hill is a neighbourhood known as Garbage City. Its residents are the Zabbaleen, a community that has become so adept at treating trash that it rivals the most advanced ...

Every day at 4 a.m., Kuzman Tadris Tawadrus and his two daughters hitch their donkeys to a cart–an oddly listing construction of wooden planks and World War II-era tank wheels–and ride out of the ...