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Part One. Schooling the Nation : Inside a Girls' Preparatory School -- An Ethnographer's Orientation -- Schooling Citizens -- Educating Girls -- Teachers of The Nation -- Grade Fever -- Part Two. Political Islam and Education -- The Islamist Wave and Education Markets -- Experiments in Counter-Nationalism -- Downveiling -- Part Three. Youth in a Changing Global Order -- Education, Empire, and Global Citizenship -- Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice -- Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age : A View from Egypt -- It's Time to Talk about Youth in the Middle East as "The Precariat" -- Part Four. Conclusions and Future Directions -- Is the School as We Know it on its Way to Extinction?

"A Facebook page inspired Egypt's 2011 revolution, an uprising played out as much in virtual locations as on the streets. The promise of social media to liberate and democratize was vividly realized, but the same technology has created an arena where competing forces vie to influence the minds of the young. This online battle of ideas may determine matters as fundamental to political life as the nature of freedom and the place of the present generation in the political order. Revolution in the Age of Social Media provides piercing insights into the ongoing struggle between people and power in the digital age"--

Wired Citizenship examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In today's digital age, in which formal schooling often competes with the peer-driven outlets provided by social media, youth all over the globe have forged new models of civic engagement, rewriting the script of what it means to live in a democratic society. As a result, state-society relationships have shifted-never more clearly than in the MENA region, where recent uprisings were spurred by the mobilization of tech-savvy and politicized youth.Combining original researc

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia … The Internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The Internet is a threat to human civilization.

Certain conditions of the contemporary period are bringing to the fore a shifting regional politics in which today's young people, the most numerous and educated generation in history, are recognized simultaneously as critical objects and agents of change. Youth in the Muslim Middle East are struggling to exert their youthfulness in the present and prepare for life transitions in the future in a context of ubiquitous neoliberal reforms, authoritarian regimes, and ongoing regional conflicts with no resolution in sight. At the same time, due to their sheer numbers and the meteoric spread of ever mutating youth-led cultures and movements via horizontal spaces made possible by the new media and information and communication technology (ICT), youth embody a force of cultural regeneration.

"Modernization," or processes of modern socio-political development, and

identity formation have been among the most recurrent and pertinent themes of scholarly studies

undertaken on 19th- and 20th-century Egypt. Works on intellectual thought; economic, political,

and social history; folk culture; and gender implicitly and explicitly grapple with the issue of the

country's transition to, maintenance of, struggle with, or rejection of modernity.

Modernization has often been understood through a hegemonic nationalist discourse—that

is, through governmental rhetoric, the writings of establishment intellectuals, and uncritical

examinations of state institutions. Alternative and counter-hegemonic manifestations and

representations of modernity have been largely overlooked, which makes Walter

Armbrust's anthropological inquiry into Egyptian mass culture an absolutely vital

contribution to the study of modern Egypt.

Introduction -- Global Middle East / Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera -- God / Ebrahim Moosa -- Algebra, alcehmy, astronomy / Robert Morrison -- Rumi, the bridge builder / Fatemeh Keshavarz -- On nations without borders / Hamid Dabashi -- Reflectins on exile / Edward Said -- Mo Salah, a moral somebody? / Amro Ali -- Gamal Abdel Nasser / Khaled Fahmy -- Circuits of food and cuisine / Sami Zubaida -- Pictures in motion / Kamran Rastegar -- Musical journeys / Michael Frishkopf -- The Kufiyya / Ted Swedenburg -- Water of vulnerability / Jeannie Sowers -- Cycle of oil and arms / Timothy Mitchell -- Cotton, made in Egypt / Ahmed Shokr -- Ports of the Persian Gulf / Laleh Khalili -- Touring exotic lands / Waleed Hazbun -- Outsiders of the oil states / Ahmed Kanna -- The Levant in Latin America / John Tofik Karam -- Global Tahrir / Asef Bayat -- Islamizing radicalism / Olivier Roy -- Global movement for Palestine / Ilan Feldman -- Human rights, indigenous and imperial / Lori Allen -- Cosmopolitan Middle East? : an interview with Seyla Benhabib / Linda Herrera.

"Wired Citizenship examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In todays digital age, in which formal schooling often competes with the peer-driven outlets provided by social media, youth all over the globe have forged new models of civic engagement, rewriting the script of what it means to live in a democratic society. As a result, state-society relationships have shifted never more clearly than in the MENA region, where recent uprisings were spurred by the mobilization of tech-savvy and politicized youth.Combining original research with a thorough exploration of theories of democracy, communications, and critical pedagogy, this edited collection describes how youth are performing citizenship, innovating systems of learning, and re-imagining the practices of activism in the information age. Recent case studies illustrate the context-specific effects of these revolutionary new forms of learning and social engagement in the MENA region"--