A group of male students wearing traditional white Azhari caps (Taqiyya) sit at wooden desks while a teacher instructs at the chalkboard in a classroom at an Al-Azhar affiliated school in Qena, Upper Egypt. Al-Azhar schools are part of Egypt's state religious education system, operated under Al-Azhar institution, which is one of the oldest and most prominent Islamic learning institutions in the world. The scene captures everyday classroom life in a traditional religious school setting in Upper Egypt.