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  • 5 - Nationalism, Belonging and Citizenship in Official Textbooks

  • Hania Sobhy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG), Göttingen
  • Book:
    Schooling the Nation
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 131-155
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    Because textbooks in Egypt are centrally developed and unified across all schools, they represent a critical resource for studying state-sponsored discourses directed at the majority of Egyptians enrolled in national education. This chapter explains how national belonging is articulated and justified in school textbooks, what national glories are celebrated and how the route to progress is articulated. It describes the place the figure of the leader, the army and Islam take up in these narratives and explores how neoliberalism and active citizenship are articulated in these narratives. The chapter highlights the striking ways in which textbook discourses have utilized Islam and their limited attempts at legitimizing the ideological directions of the regime in terms of privatization, austerity, the general neoliberal orientation or geopolitical alliances. In outlining differences between textbooks, it addresses the ways in which education functions as a space in which negotiations and accommodation take place between different social forces.