Young male students wearing white skullcaps (Taqiyah) and blue galabeyas sit at wooden desks inside a classroom at Al-Sudais Al-Azhar Institute in Qena, Upper Egypt. The institute is an Al-Azhar affiliated religious school providing Islamic education including Quran memorization and traditional Islamic sciences. Al-Azhar institutes represent one of Egypt's oldest and most widespread networks of religious education, operating across governorates including Upper Egypt.