Publications of Hania Sobhy

Sobhy, H.: Schooling the nation: Education and everyday politics in Egypt. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2023)

Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: Everyday politics, mobilization and belonging (Special issue). Citizenship Studies 28, (6) (2024)

Sobhy, H.: We don’t have diversity here, but inequality, that’s in the design of the education system: Tunisian teachers, diversification and the defunding of education. global-e. Series: Diversifying Global Education 16 (1) (2025)

Sobhy, H.: When do teachers strike: Between strong Unions, divergent preferences and political opportunity in Tunisia. Globalisation, Societies and Education, pp. 1 - 16 (2024)

Sobhy, H.: Equity, the transnational and the global learning crisis. Cogent Social Sciences 10 (1), 2359268 (2024)

Sobhy, H.: Campaigning for the revolution: Freedom, social justice and citizenship imaginaries in the Egyptian uprising. Mediterranean Politics, published online, pp. 1 - 27 (2024)

Sobhy, H.; Abdalla, N.: Lived citizenship and the Arab Uprisings: Everyday politics, mobilization and belonging. Citizenship Studies 28 (6), pp. 565 - 594 (2024)

Sobhy, H.: The lived social contract in schools: From protection to the production of hegemony. World Development 137, 104986 (2021)

Sobhy, H.: Educational crises and the evolving social contract with the middle classes. Majalat al-Dimuqratiyya (2016)

Sobhy, H.: Secular façade, neoliberal Islamisation: textbook nationalism from Mubarak to Sisi. Nations & Nationalism 21 (4), pp. 805 - 824 (2015)

Sobhy, H.: After Paris, what role for reforming education in the Middle East? (Op-Ed). OpenDemocracy (2015)

Sobhy, H.: Educational privatization and the collapse of state institutions under Mubarak (Op-Ed). Forum Transregionale Studien and Max Weber Stiftung, WZB, Berlin (2014)

Sobhy, H.: The de-facto privatization of secondary education in Egypt. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 42 (1), pp. 47 - 67 (2012)

Sobhy, H.: Reading reform into the past: power and Islamist articulations of Muslim history. Quest Journal Issue 4 (2007)

Sobhy, H.: «جوايا نور».. ورسائل التنوع والتحفيز [Messages of diversity and motivation ]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2023)

Sobhy, H.: al-Ustath wal-hayawan [The Teacher and the Animal]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2019)

Sobhy, H.: Ma’sat al-tablit wa-mu‘dilat al tatwir [The Tablet Crisis and the Dilemmas of Reform]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2019)

Sobhy, H.: Al-durus al-khususiya: hal sayaqdi ‘alaiha nitham al-ta‘lim al jadid? [Private Lessons: Will the New Education System Eliminate Them?]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2018)

Sobhy, H.: ‘An al-khibrat al-ajnabiyya wal-Ijabiyat wal-damanat [On Foreign Expertise, Positives and Guarantees]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2018)

Sobhy, H.: A-islah bidun mu’alimin. [Reform without Teachers]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2018)

Sobhy, H.: Hal Nahtaj lil-lugha al-arabiyya? [Do We Need Arabic?]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2018)

Sobhy, H.: Manahij al-ta‘lim al-jadida bayn al-inbihar wal-ihbat [The New Curricula between Awe and Frustration]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2018)

Sobhy, H.: Hal sananjah bil-tuknulujia? [Will We Make it with Technology?]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2018)

Sobhy, H.: Qararat tatwir al-ta‘lim al-wa’ida.. tasa’ulat jawhariya [The Promising Education Reform Decisions.. Critical Questions]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2017)

Sobhy, H.: Thawrat al-umahat li-tahsin manahij al-ta‘lim [Mothers’ revolution for curriculum reform]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2016)

Sobhy, H.: Hal majlis al-nuwwab musta‘id li-ikhtibar qanun al-ta‘lim al-jadid? [Is parliament ready for the test of a new education law?]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2016)

Sobhy, H.: Ma ba‘d al-hathf wal-idafa: kayfa nada‘ manahij did al-tataruf? [Beyond cutting and pasting: How can we develop anti-extremist curricula?]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2015)

Sobhy, H.: Al-juthur al-‘amiqa lil-tataruf fil-ta‘lim al-misri [The deep roots of extremism in Egyptian education]. Al-Shorouk Newspaper (2015)

Sobhy, H.: [Blog post:] To get rid of extremism in Egyptian education, understand its roots (Op-Ed). (2015)

Sobhy, H.: [Blog post:] Mafish Ta‘lim: Why Egypt Ranked Last on Education. Published 28/05/2015 · Updated 10/07/2020. (2015)

Sobhy, H.: [Blog Post:] A Collapse of Formal Schooling in Egypt (Op-Ed). (2015)

Sobhy, H.: [Blog post:] Tell the teacher: I see you, I thank you. (2014)

Sobhy, H.: Reforms for Another Planet: The Global Learning Crisis, Political Drivers and Expert Views on Egypt’s Edu 2.0. RISE. Research on Improving Systems of Education. Political Economy Paper, PE06, pp. 1 - 39 (2023)

Sobhy, H.: Violence, class and masculinity in Egypt: Gendered punishment in Cairene schools. MMG Working Paper (20-03) (2020), 34 pp.

Sobhy, H.: Expensive classrooms, poor learning: The imperatives of reforming school construction in Egypt. Alternative Policy Solutions: Policy Paper (2019)

Sobhy, H.: al-ta'lim al-qadim wal-ta'lim al-jadid fi Misr: Siyasat al-ta'lim qabl al-jami'i wa atharaha 'ala al-'adala al-ijtima'ya [Old education and new education in Egypt: Pre-university education policies and their impact on social justice]. In: Al-Siyasat al-'Amma wal-'Adala al-Ijtima'ya fi Misr = Public Policies and Social Justice in Egypt, pp. 11 - 45 (Eds. al-Agati, M.; ElAgati, M.). Dar Al Maraya for Cultural Production, Kairo (2019)

Sobhy, H.: 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, pp. 415 - 454 (Ed. Singerman, D.). American University Press, Cairo (2009)