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 ...

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 ...

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 ...