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:

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