An elderly Egyptian craftsman wearing a white galabiya sits sorting raw white yarn inside Uncle Salama's (Am Salama) dyeing workshop, a well-known local landmark in the El-Darb El-Ahmar district of Historic Cairo. Large sacks of raw fiber and bundles of white and blue yarn are stacked around him, while a second worker operates a machine in the background. El-Darb El-Ahmar is one of Cairo's oldest surviving artisan quarters, dating to the Fatimid and Mamluk eras, where traditional crafts including dyeing, weaving, and textile work have been practiced for centuries.