Resources & Links

A.P.E & the Zabbaleen in the News
Finding a Market for Crafts Made by the Trash Collectors of Cairo, New York Times.
The Garbage Attack: Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity, Al Ahram Weekly: Beyond.
Cleaning Cairo, but Taking a Livelihood, New York Times.
The Garbage People of Cairo, Geographical Magazine.
Future's So Bright, Guernica.
Sugarcoating Empowerment, UNESCO Courier.
Publications on A.P.E. & the Zabbaleen
Marie Assaad & Judith Bruce. Empowering the Next Generation: Girls of the Moqattam Garbage Settlement. Seeds, No.19. 1997.
Laila R. Iskandar Kamel, ‘Moquattam Garbage Village’
Benedict Faccini. Recycled Rags, Renewed Lives, UNESCO Innovations for Youth: Education to Fight Exclusion, No.3. 1999.
Mounir Neamatalla. Zabbaleen Environment & Development Project, The Mega-Cities Project. 1998.
Hossam Aziz. Improving the livelihood of child waste pickers: experiences with the ‘Zabbaleen’ in Cairo, Egypt, WASTE .2004.
Wendy Walker. The Torah Zabbaleen: From Tin Shacks… To High Rises. Egypt: 2005.
Marie Assaad & Nadra Garas. Experiments in Community Development in a Zabbaleen Settlement. Cairo Papers in Social Science. Volume 16, Monograph 4. American University in Cairo Press: Winter 1993/94.
Syada Greiss, et al. Recycling the Rejects of the Rejects: Protection of the Environment and Poverty Alleviation by Job Creation to Youth. Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, pp.490-497. Chennai, India: 5-7 September 2007.
Ragui Assaad and students of PA 5521: Development Planning & Policy Analysis, Spring 2010, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota.Cost-Benefit Analysis for Kattameya Integrated Center for Waste Management and Recycling
Assaad, Christine. Empowerment as Kaleidoscope: A Comprehensive Empowerment Approach For Young Women Squatters in Cairo. Unpublished Masters Thesis, The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, December 2001.
Syada Greiss, Lecture delivered at Calvin College, 14th January, 2010: "Journey To Empowerment: Stories from the Streets of Cairo"
Mai Iskandar, ‘Garbage Dreams’, PBS, April 2010
A.P.E., video, Mokattam Garbage Village.