Dr. Hania Sobhy
Curriculum Vitae
Research projects
- Education, citizenship and contestation in the Middle East
- Lived citizenship and uprising in the Middle East: Everyday politics, contestation and belonging
Selected Publications
2023 (March). Schooling the Nation: Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt. Cambridge University Press. [Print and Open Access].
2023. Reforms for Another Planet: The Global Learning Crisis, Political Drivers and Expert Views on Egypt’s Edu 2.0. RISE working Paper. https://doi.org/10.35489/BSG-RISE-2023/PE06.
2021. The Lived Social Contract in Schools: From protection to the production of hegemony. World Development, 137, 104986. [Open Access]
2020. Violence, Class and Masculinity in Egypt: Gendered Punishment in Cairene Schools. MMG Working Paper 20-03.
2019. Expensive Classrooms, Poor Learning: The Imperatives of Reforming School Construction in Egypt. Alternative Policy Solutions, American University in Cairo.
2017. Recent Policy Directions in Egyptian Education: Privatization, Curriculum Reform and Teacher Salaries. Civil Society and Public Policy Formation Strategies from Morocco and Egypt, Arab Reform Initiative. Pp: 34-43.
2015. Secular Façade, Neoliberal Islamisation: Textbook Nationalism from Mubarak to Sisi. Nations & Nationalism 21(4): 805-24.
2012. The De-Facto Privatization of Secondary Education in Egypt. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 42 (1): 47-67.
2009 [2011]. Amr Khaled and Young Muslim Elites: Islamism and the Consolidation of Mainstream Muslim Piety in Egypt. In Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space and Global Modernity, edited by Diane Singerman. Pp. 415- 454. Cairo: American University Press.
In Arabic
2021. Priorities of Educational Investment between Digital Learning and School Infrastructure. Al-Malaf Al-Masry, 79: 5-9.
2019. Old and New Education in Egypt: Pre-University Education Policies and their Impact on Social Justice. In Public Policies and Social Justice in Egypt. Beirut: Arab Forum for Alternatives.
2016. Educational crises and the evolving social contract with the middle classes. Majalat al-Dimuqratiyya. 1 October.
Public Outreach
From 2015 to the present (in Arabic): Various opinion pieces on education reform, privatization, discipline, teachers, technology, extremism and the middle classes in the Egyptian Al-Shorouk Newspaper.
2015. After Paris, What Role for Reforming Education in the Middle East? OpenDemocracy. 16 December.
2015. To Get Rid of Extremism in Egyptian Education, Understand its Roots. Al-Fanar Media. 6 November.
2015. Mafish Ta‘lim: Why Egypt Ranked Last on Education. The Orient Institute Blog from Cairo and Beirut. 28 May.
2015. A Collapse of Formal Schooling in Egypt. Inequality, Education and Social Power: Transregional Perspectives FTS & MWS. 15 January.