Education

Fawwaz’s views (and others’) on education are the subject of this chapter, which sets out the emerging Egyptian nationalist agenda for national education posed against the British administration’s resistance to funding educational institutions. Girls’ education was a particularly sensitive topic. Fawwaz was one of many women calling for a locally based girls’ education. But she differed from the majority view of girls’ education as tailored solely to domestic training: ‘the mothers of the future’. Yet, as time went on, Fawwaz did focus more on girls’ education as domestically purposeful. This shift was less about increasingly valuing a domesticizing education and more about inescapable political priorities—the trajectory of national/ist and imperial/ist politics,