Conditions - Mohamed Elshahed and Farida Makar - New Schools, New Egyptians

New Schools, New Egyptians

Mohamed Elshahed and Farida Makar

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Model 8 school in an unidentified location, likely outside Cairo in a provincial town. Source: Al-Emara.

Conditions
November 2019










Notes
1

Tawfiq Abdel Gawwad, “School Premises State Foundation and the First Stage of Schools” in Majallat al-Emara, No. 2, 1957 {in Arabic}.

2

Mériam N. Belli, An Incurable Past: Nasser’s Egypt Then and Now (Gainesville, 2013), 55.

3

Ibid., 57.

4

Ibid., 28.

5

Keith Wheelock, Nasser’s New Egypt: A Critical Analysis (New York, 1960), 112.

6

United Arab Republic: The Yearbook, 1963 (Cairo, 1963), 103.

7

This process, of course, occurred in many countries. In the case of revolutionary Egypt, standardized curricula and school buildings can be understood as part of a broader effort to define a “standard citizen.” See Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor, School (London, 2008), 19.

8

Gawwad, 8.

9

Belli, 28.

10

Yoram Meital, “School Textbooks and Assembling the Puzzle of the Past in Revolutionary Egypt,” Middle Eastern Studies, 42, no. 2 (March 2006): 255.