#zabbaleen

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Zabbaleen, Cairo

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Something you might be interested in if you care about relatively ethical consumption under capitalism and/or cool-looking products

Zabbaleen Products

Recycled and upcycled textile and paper products handmade in Egypt. Ethical trading to support development projects.

Seems really neat from what I've seen, you may want to check out

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26/09 - Boo Boo | НАД, Zabbaleen, Schnur Bodden

26.09.2023 в КЦ ДОМ состоится выступление  проекта Boo Boo. Также в концерте - НАД , Zabbaleen , Schnur Bodden + Специальные гости. Boo Boo Пост-индустриальная группа хаоса Boo Boo существует с 2005 года. Пост-индастриал, как вечный хаос - так музыканты определяют свое творчество, используя доступные материалы и конструкции для звукоизвлечения. В композициях нашли отражение проблемы социума и человека в современном постиндустриальном мире. В составе проекта: Алексей Фролов - metal trash бас гитара, установка из металлических пружин, электроника. Основатель и участник группы “Die Schwarze Katzen” Arat Ak Ool - scream noise, сэмплер Алеся Белая Птица - вокал. 26 сентября с проектом выступит Эрес Сандан, молодой мастер тувинского горлового пения. НАД, Zabbaleen, Schnur Bodden - выступят с перформансом HASTUR - это прогулка по следам мифа о фигуре в желтом для танцора, архаичной акустики и скрежета. Участвуют специальные гости. Метафора: Миф Хастура очерчен нечетко - образ, проступающий интертекстуально в череде произведений художественной литературы, низкопробных фантастических пьесах и разного толка рассказах, не претендующих на универсальный взгляд. В одном случае это титул, в другом топоним, а в третьем название небесного тела или Иных миров. Иногда - читающий или сам текст. Участники: Zabbaleen - музыкальный проект антрополога Сергея Габбасова. Первые звуковые эксперименты Сергей начал еще в 90-е годы, погружаясь в глубины планетарного радиоэфира на даче, где на чердаке была протянута огромная проволочная антенна и стояли старые советские ламповые радиолы и приемники. Позже в дело шли перепаянные кассетные и катушечные магнитофоны, лабораторные генераторы звуковых сигналов и этническая акустика. Затем, уже в середине 2000-х, был эклектичный проект BARDO — альбом в drone-ambient следовал за альбомом в minimal-techno. C 2008 по 2011 существовал проект Vazhes, сотрудничавший с такими мэтрами мировой ambient-сцены как Northaunt и Rapoon. С апреля 2011 по декабрь 2021 существовал проект DubRaJah, ориентированный на аутентичный "корневой" даб. В рамках этого проекта Сергей сотрудничал с Ли "Скрэтч" Перри и Zion Train. В стилистике глубокого этнического эмбиента было издано четыре альбома - India, Zhang-Zhung, Perseides и 'Phrul-'khor (последние три - совместно с проектом SiJ). Schnur Bodden - kranken noise - mono track. Шумовой проект Николая Клишева. Топография тлетворных вибраций, миазмы скорбящих пружин. Анастасия Щербакова, проект НАД - актриса психофизического театра, танцовщица, преподаватель, практик. Исследует способы работы с вниманием и пространством в области искусства, использующего тело как выразительный инструмент; взаимодействие движения и музыки, звука (серия мероприятий "Вечер экспериментов со звуком и телом", 2016-2021, работа с подзвученными объектами); практики медленного танца (Slow motion Рисунок Движения, с 2015). Культурный Центр ДОМ Адрес: Москва, Большой Овчинниковский переулок, дом 24, строение 4 (метро Новокузнецкая) Билеты: 600р. Read the full article

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Cairo 1983 , Egypt

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Cairo 1983 , Egypt

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“Город Мусорщиков”, Каир, Египет. Так называется район Каира, в котором каста людей, именующими заббалины, собирают, сортируют и утилизирует мусор всего города.

"City Scavengers", Cairo, Egypt. So called district of Cairo, where the caste of people, names ZABBALEEN collected, sorted and recycles garbage all over the city.

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Cairo's Christian Ragmen, Unlikely Inventors Of Eco-Waste System

Marion Guénard, Le Monde, Nov. 19, 2013

CAIRO--"Have you seen this? The streets are so filthy, it's disgusting!" And yet, Suzie Greiss doesn't live in Cairo's most disadvantaged area. In the middle-class area of Heliopolis, the head of Egypt's Association for the Protection of the Environment (APE) can no longer stand the filth that has taken over the streets of the Egyptian capital these last few years.

In 2012, now-deposed President Mohamed Morsi used the situation as a political campaign argument, saying he would clean out the town in a maximum of 100 days. He failed. "There's only one solution: putting the Zabbaleen back in the heart of the process of garbage pickup and treatment," Greiss says.

The Zabbaleen are Christians from Upper Egypt. Nicknamed "Cairo's ragmen," they settled in the outskirts of the city in the 1940s. With extremely poor backgrounds, they organized their keep around garbage collection, before taking up recycling in the early 1980s. With the help of NGOs and notably the APE, they equipped themselves with machines capable of recycling plastic, cardboard, paper and metal. Organic waste was left to the pigs that every family kept in their backyards. Animal feces was sent to a compost factory in the outskirts of Cairo to be transformed and sold to farmers.

Today, the Zabbaleen pick up around 9,000 tons of waste per day, almost two-thirds of the 15,000 tons that the 17 million Cairo residents throw out on a daily basis. But it is an essential role that has never been officially acknowledged by the Egyptian authorities.

"It's an aberration," says Environment Minister Leila Iskandar, who was appointed after Islamist President Mohamed Morsi's ouster. "Over the years, the Zabbaleen have created an efficient, viable and profitable ecosystem, with a waste recycling capacity of almost 100%. It's a source of employment for youth and women, who are the first victims of unemployment in Egypt. We must rely on this local organization." The minister has worked for several years in different associations in the working-class neighborhood of Manshiyat Naser--also known as "Garbage City"--where 65,000 Zabbaleen live.

Iskandar has chosen to act in direct opposition to the previous governments' policies, which, for years, marginalized the Christian minority and their work. In 2003, then-President Hosni Mubarak's ultraliberal regime had turned to multinational companies for waste removal.

"This system is not at all adapted to Cairo, where the inhabitants are used to their garbage being picked up in the buildings' floors," Greiss says. "They didn't have the reflex to bring their waste down to the dumpsters set up for that purpose. The dumpsters then became a target for thieves. Most people kept on paying the Zabbaleen informally, who went up to get the garbage. The inhabitants complained because they also had to pay for the foreign companies."

The most disastrous measure of all was the mass pig culling in the spring of 2009, to prevent swine flu. "The World Health Organization kept telling the government that the pigs had nothing to do with the epidemic," Greiss recalls. "The decision was made in 24 hours. In 15 days, 300,000 pigs were slaughtered. It was absurd." For the ragmen, the loss of income was considerable.

"Each family had at least a dozen beasts. Selling a pig could earn them around 1,080 euros," says Ezzat Naem, head of the Zabbaleen union. "It allowed them to have money in times of need. The ragmen's revenue was divided by two."

Iskandar says that by making the choice they did, Egyptian authorities voluntarily destroyed an ideal ecological system. "After the pig culling, it was no longer possible to recycle the organic waste," Iskandar adds. Food leftovers then started rotting in Cairo's gutters.

The aim now is to formalize the work of the Zabbaleen in the waste treatment process. Under the supervision of the Ministry of the Environment and the Zabbaleen union, 44 local disposal companies--which have a workforce of 1,000 families--have officially been recognized. In a month, they will take over a branch of Arab Constructors, an Egyptian company that dropped its contract with Cairo to ensure waste removal in the south of the city.

The minister also aims to develop a selective management between organic and non-organic waste, by conducting an awareness-raising campaign with the population. "Of course, it will take time," Iskandar says, admitting that she does not yet have the hundreds of thousands of euros necessary to carry out the project. "For the first six months, we want to provide a free service because the Cairo inhabitants are sick of paying for nothing for years."

Ezzat Naem waves off a swarm of flies buzzing above his head, steps over bags full of garbage, before reaching his office at the Zabbaleen union. This activist, in his fifties, has spent his life in dumpsters without seeing the slightest improvement in his working conditions. This time, he wants to believe in a revolution. "We've always been considered incompetent, unable to manage such a big city's waste. But we invented the eco-city system."