So far, the zabbaleen say, the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, like the Mubarak regime, show every sign of ignoring them in favor of developing a new garbage system. They say Morsi’s administration didn ...

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 ...

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - “We hope that these remain isolated incidents, because we are seeing what I have been saying for some time, namely that all the sins of Egyptian society will come to the ...

Cairo (Agenzia Fides)- “In June last year our work had been in a situation of stall for several months. We wanted to start a course of adult primary education but the prospects were not very hopeful” ...

July 2009 The government's decision to cull the country's entire pig population, announced by the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs on April 26, in an attempt to prevent the spread of the ...

Its 136 flicks grapple with topics ranging from Antarctica-based eccentrics (Werner Herzog‘s “Encounters at the End of the World“) to the Zabbaleen garbage collectors of Cairo (Engi Wassef‘s “Marina ...