Click Here to Read: Tales of the Trash: A neighborhood garbageman explains modern Egypt. By Peter Hessler in the New Yorker Magazine October 13, 2014 issue.
Waste collectors like Sayyid Ahmed, known as zabaleen, work in an informal economy, but they provide a remarkably efficient recycling service and become experts on their neighborhoods.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY RENA EFFENDI / INSTITUTE