Table of Contents
Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Educating Egypt: From Nation Building to Digital Disruption
Part 1 Schooling the Nation: Inside a Girls' Preparatory School
1 An Ethnographer's Orientation 19
2 Schooling Citizens 35
3 Educating Girls 49
4 Teachers of the Nation 67
5 Grade Fever 83
Part 2 Political Islam and Education
6 The Islamist Wave and Education Markets 99
7 Experiments in Counternationalism 113
8 Downveiling 127
Part 3 Youth in a Changing Global Order
9 Education, Empire, and Global Citizenship 135
10 Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice 149
11 Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt 163
12 It's Time to Talk about Youth in the Middle East as "The Precariat" 183
Part 4 Conclusions and Future Directions
13 Is the School as We Know It on Its Way to Extinction? 193
Notes 201
References 215
Index 231