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Farouk Is Gone, Long Live the Revolution
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Farouk Is Gone, Long Live the Revolution

Mériam N Belli
An Incurable Past
University Press of Florida
05/28/2013
DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813044040.003.0002

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the political and ideological function of official history and its limits. It questions the common historical utterance according to which Nasser established free universal education. In respondents’ memories of the 1950s and 1960s, female education and rural literacy rank as the most important changes in education at the time. This chapter thus examines education both in the 1950s-60s and in post-1952 political and civic culture, discussing the politics of memory, textbooks, education, and literacy.
literacy politics of memory school Nasser women’s education history civic education textbooks society and culture

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