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Zabbaleen
The Zabbaleen ( ', ) is a word which literally means "garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic.Assaad, Ragui. (1996) Formalizing the Informal? The Transformation of Cairo's Refuse Collection System. ''Journal of Planning Education & Research'', vol. 16, p. 118. The contemporary use of the word in Egyptian Arabic is to mean "garbage collectors". In cultural contexts, the word refers to teenagers and adults who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors since approximately the 1940s. The Zabbaleen (singular: ', ) are also known as Zarraba (singular: Zarrab), which means "pig-pen operators." The word ' came from the Egyptian Arabic word ' (, ) which means "garbage". Spread out among seven different settlements scattered in the Greater Cairo Urban Region, the Zabbaleen population is between 50,000 and 70,000.Fahmi, Wael & Sutton, Keith. (2006) Cairo's Zabbaleen Garbage Recyclers: Multi-nationals’ Takeover and State Relocation Plans.''Habitat International'', vol. 30, p. 812. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garbage City
Manshiyat Nasser ( ; , sometimes called "the Christianity, Christian suburb", ) is one of the nine districts that make up the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It covers 5.54 square kilometers, and was home to 258,372 people in the 2017 census. It borders Nasr City to the east, central Cairo districts to the west (Historic Cairo), and the Mokattam district to the south. It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Being Cairo's largest concentration of "Zabbaleen" garbage collectors, its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city's garbage. Although Manshiyat Naser has streets, shops, and apartments as other areas of the city, it lacks infrastructure and often has no Tap water, running water, sewers, or electricity. District subdivisions and population Manshiyat Nasser district covers eight shiakhas that include al-Mujawirin, Funer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manshiet Nasser
Manshiyat Nasser ( ; , sometimes called "the Christian suburb", ) is one of the nine districts that make up the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It covers 5.54 square kilometers, and was home to 258,372 people in the 2017 census. It borders Nasr City to the east, central Cairo districts to the west (Historic Cairo), and the Mokattam district to the south. It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Being Cairo's largest concentration of "Zabbaleen" garbage collectors, its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city's garbage. Although Manshiyat Naser has streets, shops, and apartments as other areas of the city, it lacks infrastructure and often has no running water, sewers, or electricity. District subdivisions and population Manshiyat Nasser district covers eight shiakhas that include al-Mujawirin, Sultan Qaytbay and Sultan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manshiyat Naser
Manshiyat Nasser ( ; , sometimes called "the Christianity, Christian suburb", ) is one of the nine districts that make up the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It covers 5.54 square kilometers, and was home to 258,372 people in the 2017 census. It borders Nasr City to the east, central Cairo districts to the west (Historic Cairo), and the Mokattam district to the south. It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Being Cairo's largest concentration of "Zabbaleen" garbage collectors, its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city's garbage. Although Manshiyat Naser has streets, shops, and apartments as other areas of the city, it lacks infrastructure and often has no Tap water, running water, sewers, or electricity. District subdivisions and population Manshiyat Nasser district covers eight shiakhas that include al-Mujawirin, Funer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokattam
The Mokattam ( , also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt. Etymology The Arabic name ''Mokattam'' means cut off or broken off and apparently refers to how the low range of hills is divided into three sections. Paul Casanova advocated the idea that it is a corruption of an older name Maqaduniya (), mentioned in Medieval Arabic sources, which he derives from ''Makhetow'' (), one of the names of Memphis. Landform The Mokattam Formation, named after the hills, outcrops throughout the plateau. The highest segment is a low mountain landform called Moqattam Mountain. In the past the exposed Mokattam Formation was an important ancient Egyptian quarry site for limestone, used in the construction of temples and pyramids. Settlement The hills are in the region of ancient Fustat, the new capital founded by 'Amr ibn al-'As after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giza
Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah, Gizeh, Geeza, Jiza''; , , ' ) is the third-largest city in Egypt by area after Cairo and Alexandria; and fourth-largest city in Africa by population after Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 4,872,448 in the 2017 census. It is located on the west bank of the Nile opposite central Cairo, and is a part of the Greater Cairo metropolis. Giza lies less than north of Memphis (''Men-nefer,'' today the village of Mit Rahina), which was the capital city of the unified Egyptian state during the reign of pharaoh Narmer, roughly 3100 BC. Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau, the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, among which are the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. Giza has always been a focal point in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imbaba
Imbaba ( ', ) is a working-class neighbourhood in northern Giza, Egypt, located west of the Nile and northwest of and near Gezira Island and downtown Cairo, within the Giza Governorate. The district is located in the historic upper Nile Delta, and is part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area. Imbaba is the List of city districts by population density, most densely populated city subdivision in the world. Imbaba is also the name of an adjacent Subdivisions of Egypt#Municipal divisions, administrative centre () in rural Giza Governorate, which has 18 villages in its jurisdiction. Etymology The origin of the name Imbaba is not certain. Some sources claim that it comes from the Amharic word for Borassus aethiopum, African fan palm () and that the area was called so by Ethiopians, Ethiopian camel merchants and herders to describe the place where they met to do business. However, the fan palm does not grow in Egypt and older versions of the name that do not correspond to the Amharic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evictions
Eviction is the removal of a Tenement (law), tenant from leasehold estate, rental property by the landlord. In some jurisdictions it may also involve the removal of persons from premises that were foreclosure, foreclosed by a mortgagee (often, the prior owners who defaulted on a mortgage). Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, summary process, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. Nevertheless, the term ''eviction'' is the most commonly used in communications between the landlord and tenant. Depending on the jurisdiction involved, before a tenant can be evicted, a landlord must win an eviction lawsuit or prevail in another step in the legal process. It should be borne in mind that ''eviction'', as with ''ejectment'' and certain other related terms, has precise meanings only in certain historical contexts (e.g., under the English common law of past centurie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helwan
Helwan ( ', , ) is a suburban district in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt. The area of Helwan witnessed prehistoric, ancient Egyptian, Roman and Muslim era activity. More recently it was designated as a city until as late as the 1960s, before it became contiguous with the city of Cairo and was incorporated as a district. For a brief period between April 2008 and April 2011 it was redesignated as a city, and served as the capital of the now defunct Helwan Governorate that was split from Cairo and Giza governorates, before being re-incorporated back into them. The ''kism'' of Helwan had a population of 521,239 in the 2017 census. History The Helwan and Isnian cultures of the late Epipalaeolithic, and their Ouchata retouch methods for creating microlithic tools may have contributed to the development of the Harifian cultural assemblage of the Sinai, which may have introduced Proto-Semitic language Proto-Semitic is the Linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed common ance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samih Sawiris
Samih Onsi Sawiris (, ; born 28 January 1957) is an Egyptian- Montenegrin businessman, investor and billionaire and the second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the former executive chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Orascom Development Holding AG. As of 2015, his net worth was estimated at US$850 million, which at the time made him the 26th richest person in Africa. Education and career Sawiris received his Engineering Diploma in Engineering management from Technische Universität Berlin in 1980. He founded National Marine Boat Factory, followed by Orascom Projects for Touristic Development in 1996 and Orascom Hotels and Development in 1998; the latter two companies later merged to form Orascom Development Holding AG. He has served as CEO and chairman of Orascom Development Holding AG from its incorporation, and stepped down in December 2021. His son succeeded him. Through his organisation, Sawiris develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naguib Sawiris
Naguib Onsi Sawiris ( ; ; born 15 June 1954) is an Egyptian businessman. Sawiris is chairman of Weather Investments's parent company, and the former chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding and Orascom Investment Holding S.A.E. Early life Born on 15 June 1954, in Cairo, Egypt, to businessman Onsi Sawiris (founder of Orascom Group) and Yousriya Loza Sawiris, Naguib is the eldest of three brothers. His brothers, Nassef and Samih, are also billionaires. Education Naguib received a diploma from the German Evangelical School in Giza, as well as a diploma of mechanical engineering with a master's degree in technical administration from ETH Zurich. Career Since joining Orascom, the family business in 1979, Sawiris has contributed to the growth and diversification of the company into what it is today one of Egypt's largest and most diversified conglomerates and the country's largest private sector employer. Sawiris built the railway, information technology, and telecommun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onsi Sawiris
Onsi Sawiris (also written Sawires; ; ) (August 14, 1930 – June 29, 2021) was an Egyptian businessman. He was the head of the Sawiris family and founder of the Orascom Group conglomerate. Background and personal life Sawiris was born on August 30, 1930, in Sohag, Egypt, into a Coptic Christian family, the son of Naguib Sawiris, a lawyer, and his wife. He was the youngest of four children. Sawiris received a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Cairo University in 1950. After graduation, he managed his family’s 52-acre farm for two years using his newly learnt agricultural methods. After that, he moved into road construction as he saw that the government was spending money on building roads and there was money to be made there. From there he went into other areas. Sawiris was married to Yousriya Loza Sawiris. The couple had three sons: Naguib, Samih, and Nassef. Sawiris was Coptic Christian. Sawiris died on June 29, 2021, in El Gouna, Egypt at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawiris Family
The Sawiris family () is an Egyptian Coptic Christian family that owns the Orascom conglomerate, spanning telecommunications, construction, tourism, industries and technology. In 2008, ''Forbes'' estimated the family's net worth at US$36 billion. Onsi Sawiris (1930–2021) was the patriarch of the family. Various companies in the group are run by Onsi Sawiris' three sons and other family members: *Naguib Sawiris (born in 1954) *Samih Sawiris (born in 1957) *Nassef Sawiris (born in 1961) * Yousriya loza sawiris (born 1935) *sherine magar-sawiris *naguib samih sawiris *onsi naguib sawiris jr Onsi Sawiris founded Orascom in 1950 that has grown into a conglomerate of companies including Orascom Telecom Holding (), and Orascom Technology Solutions (OTS) (), both run by Naguib Sawiris, Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) () run by Nassef Sawiris, Orascom Hotels and Development (OHD) () run by Samih Sawiris. Naguib Sawiris is an investor in Mobinil, Egypt's main mobile phone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
