Ah - the battle over what to include in textbooks (and no, we are not talking about Texas school board) at a time of constant consequential changes: Last year, when the Muslim Brothers were in power, Egypt altered school history curricula to downplay exaggerated achievements of former president Hosni Mubarak. They also relieved Suzanne Mubarak, his wife, of her former position as one of the “greatest female figures in the history of Egypt”. It was more controversial when school teachers affiliated with the Brotherhood opted to teach their own unofficial curriculum, exaggerating the movements role in the 2011 uprising. In July when President Muhammed Morsi was ousted, calls rose to remove him from history tomes. The education minister refused, but decided that Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s founder, should not be featured. economist/blogs/pomegranate/2013/11/rewriting-history-after-revolutions?fsrc=scn%2Ftw_ec%2Fshifting_sands
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 03:56:17 +0000
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