The Zabbaleen, which means "garbage collectors" in Egyptian Arabic, resides in the Cairo neighborhood of Mokattam - dubbed the "Garbage City ... from Upper Egypt's rural areas in the 1940s ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Faouzi eL Seed has painted a mural that spans 50 buildings in the "Garbage City" part of Cairo. Story and editing by David Fang; photos and footage courtesy of eL ...

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