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As a consequence of the pig massacre, the streets of Cairo have become almost unlivable, and the Christian garbage collectors, locally called the zabaleen, have been robbed of their livelihood.
Slate Magazine 2009
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This is where thousands of freelance trash collectors called zabaleen, who are mainly Coptic Christians, hand-sort through tons of rubbish collected from the streets of the megalopolis and then sell recyclable material.
News24 Top Stories 2009
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Cairo's predominantly Christian population of garbage collectors, known as the zabaleen, roam the streets of the sprawling city's wealthier neighborhoods collecting its garbage.
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Rag rugs, patchwork quilts and other crafts made by Cairo trash pickers, known as zabaleen, for sale at a Gramercy Park church.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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Cairo's predominantly Christian population of garbage collectors, known as the zabaleen, roam the streets of the sprawling city's wealthier neighbourhoods collecting its garbage.
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Cairo's predominantly Christian population of garbage collectors, known as the zabaleen, roam the streets of the sprawling city's wealthier neighborhoods collecting its garbage.
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Cairo's predominantly Christian population of garbage collectors, known as the zabaleen, roam the streets of the sprawling city's wealthier neighborhoods collecting its garbage.
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Cairo's predominantly Christian population of garbage collectors, known as the zabaleen, roam the streets of the sprawling city's wealthier neighborhoods collecting its garbage.
Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2009
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Cairo's predominantly Christian population of garbage collectors, known as the zabaleen, roam the streets of the sprawling city's wealthier neighborhoods collecting its garbage.
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They watched as the neighborhood's hundreds of thousands of residents, known as the zabaleen, sorted the city's trash under terrible conditions, as their families have done for decades.
NYT > Home Page 2009
john commented on the word zabaleen
“For more than half a century, those collectors were the zabaleen, a community of Egyptian Christians who live on the cliffs on the eastern edge of the city. They collected the trash, sold the recyclables and fed the organic waste to their pigs — which they then slaughtered and ate.�?
The New York Times, Egypt Discovers the Flaw in Killing All Its Pigs, by Michael Slackman, September 19, 2009
September 20, 2009
madmouth commented on the word zabaleen
sad to say, Slackman lives up to his name by failure to explicitly connect what's happening to the trash now with the racist government policy that played into the swine cull. there's a more interesting story underneath this mild denunciation of the government's poor bureaucracy.
September 20, 2009