Open AccessSister Emmanuelle: A View from the Slums of Cairo
Author(s) -
Lebanese American University
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1366
Subject(s) - sister , garbage , geography , genealogy , cartography , history , ethnology , sociology , anthropology , engineering , waste management
In Cairo, in a place called Matareya, live 4000 'zabbalins' or garbage collectors in sub-human conditions - in environments similar to those of the 'villas m iserias' of Buenos Aires, the 'favelas' of Mexico, the 'barradas' of Lima and the slums of Bombay and Calcutta.