Ayisha Ghareb, 57, sews a shroud at her home in Kalba. She has been washing bodies before burial for 35 years. Christopher Pike / The National
Ayisha Ghareb, 57, sews a shroud at her home in Kalba. She has been washing bodies before burial for 35 years. Christopher Pike / The National

UAE Portrait of a Nation: Emirati honours dead by preparing them for burial