Schooling the Nation: Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt

Schooling the Nation, by Hania Sohby, examines how citizenship was lived and imagined by young people in the years before and after the Arab uprisings. Based on rare access to Egyptian secondary schools from 2008 to 2018, the book dissects the constellations of marketization, noncompliance and violence that define Egypt’s ‘permissive-repressive neoliberalism’, and illustrates how young women and men construct the state, negotiate national belonging, imagine Islamic legitimacy and reproduce textbook narratives of citizenship in this historical juncture.