For years, the Zabbaleen would live in makeshift villages where they would move around trying to avoid the local authorities, but in the early 1980s, they settled on the Mokattam rocks just at the eastern edge of the city.
很多年来，扎巴林的居民生活在临时的村落里 他们可以随时移动 以试图回避当地政府， 但是在80年代初，他们在 摩卡塔姆山区定居下来 就在城市东边的边缘地区。