Educating Egypt: A Virtual Book Talk

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Join us for a virtual book talk with Linda Herrera, Social anthropologist and professor of Education Policy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to discuss her newly-published book "Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles" with Kenneth M. Cuno, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Register to join the webinar:
https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/4516511697705/WN_i_AS8ayJRFanTD2cvpPm4A

You can purchase the book from AUC Bookstores in Egypt, major bookstores worldwide, and online book retailers such as amazon and bookshop.org.

About the book:

Educating Egypt features portraits of Egyptian schools, youth and educators amidst a backdrop of sweeping global and technological change. Drawing on three decades of ethnographic and oral history research, it traces the everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles of education in Egypt from the era of nation building in the twentieth century to the age of digital disruption in the twenty-first. The book is organized in three sections—Schooling the Nation, Political Islam and Education, and Youth in a Changing Global Order—to highlight change over time and shifts in power within the education space. Balancing between micro and macro analysis, the book explores education and its connection to politics and geopolitics, Islamist movements, youth cultures, online activism, international development, digital transformation and the collective effects of all these on notions and practices of citizenship and education futures.

Send us your questions on the topic to: auc.press@aucegypt.edu and we will ask them at the Q&A session at the end of the book talk.

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