Two elderly men sit conversing on wooden chairs outside the Tanturerie Sphinx (Tantouret el-Sphinx), a historic dyeing shop in the Bahri district of Alexandria, Egypt. The shopfront displays a faded bilingual sign in Arabic and French above a dark interior containing a framed photograph, with cracked plaster walls typical of old Alexandrian street architecture. The scene captures an everyday moment of street social life in one of Alexandria's oldest and most characterful neighborhoods.