Channel 4’s acclaimed foreign affairs strand returns with a startling film exposing a dark side to Egypt that the authorities don’t want foreigners to see: a secretive society of around 40,000 people literally living in rubbish in a Cairo ghetto overrun by rats and disease.

This group is unique for another reason. They’re part of Muslim Egypt’s Christian minority; a community claiming to be besieged by persecution, extremism and a creeping Islamisation in Egypt’s security services.

Friday 8 February 2008
7:35pm