ABOUT THE PROJECT
Meeting to present the concept of the Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project, Cairo, April 2019. From left, Alethia Blithe Flowers, Linda Herrera, Tarek Shawki, Deena Boraie, Nelly ElZayat
The Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project was established in 2019 to document the first five years of Egypt’s historic Education 2.0 reforms. It was housed at the Social Science Research Center at the American University in Cairo. It formally closed the end of 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, but the documentation, research, and training activities continued on a volunteer basis under the directorship of Professor Linda Herrera. The project has a dedicated YouTube channel and book.
تأسس مشروع "التعليم 2.0 للبحث والتوثيق" في عام 2019 لتوثيق السنوات الخمس الأولى من إصلاحات التعليم التاريخية في مصر. وقد استضافه مركز أبحاث العلوم الاجتماعية في الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة. وأُغلق المشروع رسميًا في نهاية عام 2020 بسبب جائحة فيروس كورونا، إلا أن أنشطة التوثيق والبحث والتدريب استمرت على أساس تطوعي تحت إشراف البروفيسورة ليندا هيريرا. وللمشروع قناة خاصة على يوتيوب وكتاب منشور.
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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
This project has relied on the institutional support of the Social Science Research Center at the American University of Cairo, The Office of the Minister of Education and Technical Education of Egypt, The Education Section of the British Embassy in Cairo, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SPECIAL THANKS
An EDU 2.0 project meeting on Zoom during the Coronavirus pandemic, 2020
A number of people contributed to this project by way of administrative and technical support, funding, taking part in workshops, working as researchers, and participating in research. The project acknowledges these many contributions.
PROJECT COORDINATION AND RESEARCHERS
LINDA HERRERA, Director and Principal Investigator
NELLY ELZAYAT, Minister of Education Advisor on project
NAIRY ABDELSHAFY, Oral History Coordinator and Researcher
HANY ZAYED, Digital Transformation Coordinator and Researcher
HEBA SHAMA, Case Study Coordinator and Researcher
MOSTAFA HANAFY, Video Production and Coordination
AHMED ALAA, Video Production, Post-Production, and Archiving
AHMED SHERIF, National Center for Educational Research and Development (NCERD)
KAMAL NABIL, National Center for Educational Research and Development (NCERD)
HELEN GABRAH, Project Assistant and Researcher
DINA MOKBEL, Project Assistant and Researcher
MOHAMED YEHIA, Researcher
NEVINE EL SOUEFI, Researcher
MENNA MANSOUR, Researcher,
AYMAN ELHOSEINI, Researcher
ABDELHAMID MAHMOUD, Poducation Producer
NARIMAN MOUSTAFA, Harvard Graduate School of Education Oral History Team
EBTIHAL ELGHAMRAWY. Harvard Graduate School of Education Oral History Team
THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, EGYPT
DR. TAREK SHAWKI, Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022)
DR. NAWAL SHALABY, Director of the Center for Curriculum Instructional Materials Development (CCIMD) (2018-2022)
DR. DEENA BORAIE, Senior Advisor for Assessment, Examinations and Curriculum (2018-2022)
DR. AHMED DAHER, Deputy Minister of Education for ICT
FUNDING & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
BRITISH FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
Social Research Center (SRC)
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN
CAMPUS RESEARCH BOARD
ABOUT THE PROJECT DIRECTOR
Linda Herrera at the Ministry of Education and Technical Education, Cairo, 2019
LINDA HERRERA is a professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. A social anthropologist with regional expertise in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), she lived in Egypt for 17 years and has worked for over three decades in academia and international development. Her books include Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt (OBP, 2025), Educating Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2022), Global Middle East (with A. Bayat, University of California Press, 2021), Revolution in the Age of Social Media (Verso, 2014), Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East (Routledge, 2014), Cultures of Arab Schooling (with C.A. Torres, SUNY Press, 2005), Being Young and Muslim (with A. Bayat, Oxford University Press, 2009), STAND UP! SIT DOWN! Cultures of Schooling in Egypt (Population Council, 2003-in Arabic), and Between Field and Text: Emerging Voices in Egypt Social Science (Cairo Papers in Social Science, 1999). She has also curated the YouTube channels Critical Voices in Critical Times, Education 2.0, and Democracy Dialogue.
THE WALL OF EGYPTIAN MINISTERS OF EDUCATION
The Wall of Ministers, located in the Ministry of Education and Technical Education, includes photographs of all previous ministers of education in Egypt including legendary figures like Ali Mubarak and Taha Hussein.
