Schooling the Nation

Drawing on rare first-hand accounts from Egyptian schools, Hania Sobhy explores how citizenship was lived, imagined, and contested before and after the 2011 uprising. She uses education as a lens to offer novel insights on everyday governance, legitimation and belonging. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Telling the story of the Egyptian uprising through the lens of education, Hania Sobhy explores the everyday realities of citizens in the years before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring'. With vivid narratives from students and staff from Egyptian schools, Sobhy offers novel insights on the years that led to and followed the unrest of 2011. Drawing a holistic portrait of education in Egypt, she reveals the constellations of violence, neglect and marketization that pervaded schools, and shows how young people negotiated the state and national belonging. By approaching schools as key disciplinary and nation-building institutions, this book outlines the various ways in which citizenship was produced, lived, and imagined during those critical years. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.