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  • Health officials conducting a SARS inspection at the Cairo airport for passengers entering Egypt during the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003. (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).
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  • Watching Teletubbies TV show in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Rooftops in Cairo with satellite dishes, Egypt.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood rooftops in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood. Here goats and sheep are eating a supplement of grain in a trough in the street.
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  • Zabaleen neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. The Zabaleen districts (garbage collectors in Arabic) are home to the huge recycling industry run by the garbage collectors and their families. They recycle up to 87% of the trash they collect. The organic garbage is used to raise pigs and goats in their neighborhood.
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  • Apartments buildings and skyline, Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A woman hangs up laundry to dry on a Cairo, Egypt rooftop in old Cairo. Rooftops often end up as repositories for discarded items.
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  • City of the dead in the old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt.
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  • City of the dead in the old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A proud Cairo fruit stand owner shows off his produce. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Pink plastic bags of bread on a busy street in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Apartment building with signs, Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The Pyramid of Khafre, one of the massive ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, seen from the city Giza, Egypt.
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  • The Pyramid of Khafre, one of the massive ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, seen from the city Giza, Egypt.
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  • Crowded street in Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Crowded street in the market section of Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Old Islamic Cairo framed through a minaret tower window. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The pyramids of Giza seen through the dust, smoke and haze of Cairo Egypt from the minaret of a mosque. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Mosque interior, old Islamic Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A large snaggletooth woman on the balcony of her apartment in the Cairo suburb of Al-Salaam City. Egypt.
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  • Rooftop restaurant of a hotel overlooking the Al Fath Mosque in central Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. Water buffalo tethered nearby. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. Water buffalo tethered nearby. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • The port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • The port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm.
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  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Repairing small wooden boats on the beach of the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • The beach at the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • The beach at the port of Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • A "no-honking" sign in downtown Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • A 'no-honking' sign in downtown Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The yellow-orange light is from the sand in the sky filtering the sunlight.
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  • Garbanzo beans for sale in paper cones by the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Garbanzo beans for sale in paper cones by the port in Alexandria, Egypt. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Alexandria, Egypt during a sandstorm. The sky and light are orange due to a sandstorm.
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  • Couple looking out the window of their apartment above hanging laundry in Cairo, Egypt. Bordering the city of the dead.
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  • Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Old Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt, including part of the city of the dead.
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  • A woman hanging out laundry from her apartment window in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A woman hanging out laundry from her apartment window in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Old Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt, including part of the city of the dead.
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  • Old Islamic section of Cairo, Egypt, including part of the city of the dead.
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  • A family living in a large tomb in the city of the dead in Cairo, Egypt. They are acting as caretakers.
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  • The small kitchen of a family living in a large tomb in the city of the dead in Cairo, Egypt. They are acting as caretakers.
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  • Mother and son in the small kitchen of their living space. The family is living in a large tomb in the city of the dead in Cairo, Egypt. They are acting as caretakers.
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  • Furniture refinishing in the street outside a small shop in a neighborhood bordering the city of the dead in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Cairo, Egypt. Neighborhood bordering the city of the dead. Note blue cemetery monuments in the center.
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  • Raising pigeons on the roof of a Cairo, Egypt apartment building in the city of the dead.
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  • Cairo, Egypt. Neighborhood bordering the city of the dead. Note blue cemetery monuments in the center.
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  • Couple looking out the window of their apartment above hanging laundry in Cairo, Egypt. Bordering the city of the dead.
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  • Couple looking out the window of their apartment above hanging laundry in Cairo, Egypt. Bordering the city of the dead.
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  • Pigeons flying at sunset over Cairo, Egypt. Many residents raise pigeons on their rooftops and let them out to fly at sunset.
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  • Cairo, Egypt. Neighborhood bordering the city of the dead. Note blue cemetery monuments in the center.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio inside the great pyramid of Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A camel riding guide looking for clients near the pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • A camel riding guide looking for clients near the pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Inside a tomb in the great pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.  The lame tourist is none other than the famous writer Faith D'Aluisio.
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The visage of the Great Sphinx with a complex of rock cut tombs in the background (a cemetery).  Giza Pyramid complex and cemetery, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The Great Sphinx with a complex of rock cut tombs in the background (a cemetery).  Giza Pyramid complex and cemetery, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The visage of the Great Sphinx, Giza Pyramid complex at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu in the background at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Pyramids and cemetery at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt
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  • Tourists riding camels through the cemetery by the Pyramids at Giza, outside Cairo, Egypt.
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  • Muslims gather to pray at Al Fath Mosque in central Cairo. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 120).
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  • Seen from the minaret of a mosque in Cairo, a teenage boy delivers bread. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 121).
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  • The old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt, as seen from the minaret of a mosque. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36, holding her baby Nancy, 8 months on the fourth floor balcony of their apartment in the old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36, makes mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of her fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, her brother and nephew sit on the balcony overlooking the narrow street. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Ahmed family of Cairo, Egypt, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 122).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed fries chicken in the tiny kitchen of her fourth-floor apartment in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed watches her daughter Nancy, 8 months, crawl on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment as she chops spinach for dinner. Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • In the tiny kitchen of Nadia Ahmed's fourth floor apartment a plate of chicken cools, enough for both women's families and a few friends. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 123).
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed fries chicken in the tiny kitchen of her fourth-floor apartment in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Fried chicken in the tiny kitchen of Nadia Ahmed's fourth-floor apartment in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed's nephew 4-year-old Hussein, helps himself to food left on the kitchen table while his mother and Nadia prepare dinner for relatives and guests in their fourth-floor apartment, in the old section of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Cotton candy being sold in Cairo, Egypt (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130)
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  • Cow hooves and legs hanging outside a butcher shop in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Dried chili peppers and barrels of spices on the sidewalk in front of a spice shop in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A watermelon vendor outside a small supermarket in Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A fruit stand in the old part of Islamic Cairo, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A proud Cairo fruit-stand owner shows off his produce. Cairo, Egypt.
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  • The pyramids of Giza seen through the dust, smoke and haze of Cairo Egypt from the minaret of a mosque. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) .
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Planting rice near Alexandria, Egypt. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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