Male students wearing the distinctive red and white traditional caps (Taqiyya) of Al-Azhar religious schools sit attentively at wooden school desks inside a classroom in Qena, Upper Egypt. Al-Azhar schools (Madares Azhariyya) are part of Egypt's oldest and most prestigious Islamic educational institution, Al-Azhar, which has operated for over a thousand years and provides religious and academic education across Egypt. The scene reflects everyday classroom life within the Egyptian Azhari education system in Upper Egypt.