Mokattam (also Mokattam Mountain and Mokattam Hills) (Arabic: Al-Mokattam) is a hill and suburb of Cairo, Egypt.[1][2] The name, which means "cut up" in Arabic, refers to the hill is divided into three parts.[3] It lays to the east of Cairo,[1] and in the past was an important source of limestone.[1][4] Part of Mokattam Hills is an upscale suburb of Cairo.[2] The Zabbaleen (people who are an integral part of collecting and processing Cairo's municipal solid waste) live in Garbage City in Mokattam.[5] Mokattam is also the name of a film directed by Jehane Noujaim about the garbage collecting village.
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- ^ a b c Kamel, Seif. "Al Mokattam Mountain: On top of Cairo". Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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(help) - ^ a b "The Address Hotels & Resorts unveils first property in Emaar Misr's Uptown Cairo". 20-07-2008. Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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(help) - ^ "Cave Church". Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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(help) - ^ Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart, M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. (1854). "Palichthyologic Notes. No. 8. On some Ichthyolites from the Nummulitic Limestone of the Mokattam Hills, near Cairo". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Gauch, Sarah (January 06, 2003). "Egypt dumps 'garbage people'". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2009-02-5.
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