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I feel Egypt's "Zabbaleen" should be mentioned here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen There was an excellent do

by arjn 11y ago

I feel Egypt's "Zabbaleen" should be mentioned here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbaleen There was an excellent documentary on them a few years ago : http://www.garbagedreams.com/ http://www.garbagedreams.com/

qohen 11y ago
As it happens, in addition to writing the article under discussion in this post, Peter Hessler also wrote another New Yorker piece about one of the zabbaleen: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/tales-trash http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/tales-trash