Category
page 1Coptic Christians
Naguib Sawiris
Egyptian businessman
Magdi Yacoub
Egyptian surgeon
Nassef Sawiris
Egyptian billionaire businessman
Henry Barakat
Egyptian film director (1914–1997)
Zabbaleen
The Zabbaleen ( '''', ) is a word which literally means "garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic. 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".
Raja Nicola
Sudanese lawyer and judge
Naguib Pasha Mahfouz
Egyptian surgeon (1882–1974)
Raymond Lakah
Egyptian businessman