Women dressed in black sit beside graves in the historic Mamluk Desert Cemetery (El-Arafa) on the eastern edge of Cairo, a practice rooted in Egyptian mourning traditions where female relatives visit graves to pray and recite the Quran. The cemetery area, known locally as the City of the Dead (Qarafa), contains some of Egypt's most significant Mamluk-era funerary architecture and has been continuously used as a burial ground since the medieval Islamic period. This scene reflects a deeply embedded Egyptian cultural and religious custom of tending to the deceased through regular cemetery visits, particularly by women of the family.