'A fascinating in-depth analysis of education, citizenship and belonging in contemporary Egypt based on exceptional ethnographic fieldwork. I have been assigning Sobhy's earlier work in my classes and have seen the engagement and debate it creates among students. Now that the book is out, Schooling the Nation will no doubt become essential reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on the sociology, anthropology and politics of the Middle East and the Global South.' Nadine Adballa, American University in Cairo
Introduction: schools as sites of lived and imagined citizenship; 1. The late Mubarak era, education and the research; 2. Living the intensities of the privatized state: the functioning and implications of marketization across the system; 3. Everyday violence and the dynamics of punishment across the schools; 4. Gendered noncompliance and the breakdown of discipline; 5. Textbook narratives of nationalism, belonging and citizenship; 6. Performing the nation, imagining citizenship: school rituals and oppositional narratives of non-belonging; 7. What changed in education since the Revolution? Conclusion: schooling the nation in the shadow of the uprising.
