Sprawling Mural Pays Homage to Cairo’s Garbage Collectors
The intricate mural, the largest public work of art in Cairo, stretches across 50 buildings, in a harried quarter of Cairo where Egypt’s garbage collectors live. The mural, a circle of orange, white and blue in Arabic calligraphy, quotes a third-century Coptic Christian bishop “If one wants to see the light of the sun, he must wipe his eyes.”
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