zabaleen

• Cairo's zabaleen form the backbone of the city's garbage disposal system. —  FP Passport
• See more photos of zabaleen at work and read more about them in this week's photo essay, —  FP Passport
• It began by working with the 60,000 zabaleen who live on the outskirts of Cairo and gather daily 10,000 tons of garbage.
• Now the streets are awash with garbage in part (but not only) because the pigs are no longer eating it, and we still don't know what the longer-term impact on the zabaleen community is going to be. —  The Arabist
• Cairo's poor Copts are known as "zabaleen", an Arabic name for garbage man. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]

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