In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage City, Magada Bamy’s hands move so swiftly that they nearly blur as she sifts through a bag of trash. “Grade A, grade B,” she mutters to herself, placing the ...

Three curly-haired little girls – only three or four years of age – shuffled past me on the trash-covered street. Their faces were smeared with dirt and their feet, shoeless. They held in their tiny ...

The fifth edition of the exhibition sees large-scale installations from world-famous artists set against the famous pyramids ...

To all those, add the rising tide of garbage in Cairo, the world’s largest Arab city. Morsi declared it one of his top five priorities, promising to clean up the streets within 100 days. In so doing, ...

CAIRO -- Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on -- and living from -- the waste of the Egyptian capital. The tens of thousands of impoverished ...

“Manshiyat Nasser in Egypt is known to visitors as Cairo’s “Garbage City.” Micah Smith There was no escape from the dust in Cairo. That was especially true in Manshiyat Nasser, known to visitors as ...

From doors salvaged in Cairo’s Garbage City to steel from Israeli shells in Lebanon, Forever is Now reimagines history and politics through repurposed materials ...

There are probably any number of communities throughout the world, hidden to the Western eye, where traditional ways of life are threatened by government and/or corporate-sponsored modernization.

CAIRO, Egypt — It's unlikely that anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe that ...