Education and orientalist discourse
(World News Egypt)

The topic of education fits neatly into the orientalist middle class rhetoric about the poor, ignoring its role as an instrument of class power and domination in an autocratic country like Egypt. School in Egypt. Picture by Karen Green / Flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.0) In April 2018, the World Bank agreed to grant Egypt a loan worth 500 million USD, earmarked for education reform . This was followed by a publicity blitz by the Egyptian minister of education, Tarek Shawky, where he highlighted the primary features of this reform, which would involve a complete overhaul of the educational system. On paper, these reforms are close to a middle class, liberal fantasy. For example , the focus on...