Al Jazeera Frames - City of the Dead

Al-Qarafa, known as the "City of the Dead," is a four-mile-long cemetery from northern to southern part of Cairo, Egypt's capital. It is the oldest Muslim cemetary in Egypt - a bustling grid of tombs and mausoleums where people live and work amongst their dead and ancestors. Many residents live here to be near their loved ones, or because they were forced from more crowded areas in Cairo.

The documentary provides a glimpse of a veiled reality that even Egypt itself wants to ignore preferring to glorify the past of the Pharaohs and their glamorous cemeteries rather than face the present of al-Qarafa with its dead and living inhabitants.