Two elderly men sit across from each other playing backgammon (Tawla), a deeply rooted social game in Egyptian street culture, outside a traditional baladi coffeehouse in the Al-Khalifa district of Cairo. The scene captures an everyday ritual common to popular Cairo neighborhoods, where men gather at street-side coffeehouses to play Tawla, drink tea, and socialize. Al-Khalifa is one of Cairo's oldest historic districts, adjacent to the City of the Dead and the medieval Islamic Cairo area.