Photographer based in Cairo, Egypt >> Shawn Baldwin

Zabaleen, Egypt

"We want them to live a better life, humanely treated; it's a very difficult life," said Sabir Abdel Aziz Galal, chief of the infectious disease department in the Ministry of Agriculture. The zabaleen are convinced the government wants to use the swine flu scare not to help improve their lives of Christians but to get pigs out of Egypt. Islam prohibits eating pork. May 2009.
"We want them to live a better life, humanely treated; it's a very difficult life," said Sabir Abdel Aziz Galal, chief of the infectious disease department in the Ministry of Agriculture. The zabaleen are convinced the government wants to use the swine flu scare not to help improve their lives of Christians but to get pigs out of Egypt. Islam prohibits eating pork. May 2009.