Egyptian Students and Politics beyond Protest
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This book examines how the evolution of higher education in Egypt affects students and student politics. It aims to look beyond the historical representations of the student movement as protests for national and regional causes in order to account for the impact of the socio-economic shift in the 1990s, the revolution in 2011, and the restrictive context post-2013.
Egyptian Students and Politics beyond Protest uncovers the diverse locations where politics emerge among students such as student unions, partisan student organizations, student clubs and associations including simulation models, in addition to activist groups. The book draws on interviews conducted in Egypt between 2013 and 2015 with members of these groups and ethnographic observation of their activities. As students collectively and individually negotiate the scope of their political activities and the meanings they attribute to these activities, the resulting student politics are, not only diverse, but also unexpected.
Farah Ramzy is an assistant professor in the Department of Arabic Studies at the University of Strasbourg and a member of GEO UR-1340 (Groupe d'études orientales, slaves et néo-helléniques). She was previously a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, and earned her PhD in Political Science from Paris-Nanterre University and Lausanne University. She was a teaching fellow in Sciences Po Bordeaux and Sciences Po Menton, and has lectured in Sciences Po Reims and Cairo University. Her research on the contemporary Middle East focuses on contentious politics, politicization in authoritarian contexts, youth policies, and the sociology of education.