An elderly Egyptian craftsman wearing a white knitted skullcap (taqiya) shapes a clay pot on a hand-powered pottery wheel inside a traditional mud-brick workshop in Gharees Village, Ashmoun district, Al-Monofeya Governorate. His hands and clothing are heavily coated in wet clay, reflecting active, skilled work in a long-standing artisan tradition. Pottery making by hand wheel is one of Egypt's oldest surviving crafts, practiced across rural Delta villages and passed down through generations.