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- noun One of a
minority religious community ofCoptic Christians who work asCairo 's informalgarbage collectors .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cairo's largest Coptic Christian community, known as the Zabbaleen, fear worsening conditions under Egypt's new Islamist-led parliament.
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To Winnemucca's Tami Vetter, the staggering numbers for the Jungo Road landfill are a recipe for a t the heart of director Engi Wassef's fly-on-the-wall doc Marina of the Zabbaleen is the playful, pony-tailed seven-year-old Marina.
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A fascinating insight into the lives of three 'Zabbaleen' teenagers, who live and work amidst the giant waste dumps near Cairo is the subject of the US-produced 'Garbage Dreams' by Mai Iskander.
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Of the many worlds that American audiences saw on film, few would be as far removed as that of Egypt's garbage pickers, the Zabbaleen.
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It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt's "garbage people."
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It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt's "garbage people."
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It is a world folded onto itself, an impenetrable labyrinth of narrow roadways camouflaged by trash; it is home to 60,000 Zaballeen (or Zabbaleen), Egypt's "garbage people."
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The dumps are home to 60,000 Zabbaleen, (mean garbage people in Arabic), pioneers of eco-friendly recycling practices, who reuse up to 80 per cent of the trash they collect.
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It’s populated by a community of workers called Zabbaleen, who personally collect, sort, reuse, resell or otherwise repurpose Cairo’s waste.
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