Ehaab D. Abdou

Wilfrid Laurier University | WLU · Global Studies

Hagia Sophia Controversy

This book offers nuanced analyses of the narratives, spaces, and forms of citizenship education prior to and during the aftermath of the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution. To explore the dynamics shaping citizenship education during this significant socio-political transition, this edited volume brings together established and emerging researchers f...

The Egyptian Christian (Coptic) minority’s marginalization in politics and the Egyptian public sphere has been well investigated by several scholars. However, while many scholars and activists continue to call for the inclusion of the Coptic era in Egyptian history curricula, only very few studies have actually analyzed how that historical era—and...

This is the first of two pieces I wrote for the Egyptian website Mada Masr about the place of Coptic history and Copts in Egyptian history textbooks. For those based outside of Egypt, the full article is available at: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/09/22/feature/society/copts-in-egyptian-history-textbooks-since-1890-part-1-are-we-asking-the-rig...

A book review of "Becoming a History Teacher: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking and Knowing" - co-edited by Ruth Sandwell and Amy Von Heyking (2014). Published in the McGill Journal of Education/Revue des sciences de l'éducation de McGill.

Guided by critical discourse analysis, this study analyzes how ancient civilizations are constructed in high school history textbooks used in Quebec, Canada. The findings suggest that the narrative generally ignores 2-way intercultural exchanges. The narrative is also Eurocentric, silencing sub–Saharan Africa’s contributions and nonmaterial influen...

How are religious traditions and exchanges between them constructed in textbooks used in Quebec? Through a critical discourse analysis of History and Citizenship Education, and Ethics and Religious Culture textbooks, we find that the Abrahamic monotheistic tradition is valorized, while non-Abrahamic monotheistic traditions and polytheism are either...

Since January 2011, and as part of what has become widely known as the ‘Arab Spring,’ Egypt has witnessed the largest public demonstrations in the country’s history.1 These uprisings successfully ousted then-president Mubarak. Subsequent events brought Morsi—the first civilian president in the country’s long history—to power.

In this article, we interrogate notions of power in relation to three participatory visual methods: drawing, photovoice, and making cellphilms (videos made on cell phones). In particular, we address power from the perspectives of Foucault, Freire, Giroux, and hooks in a consideration of the power structures operating in and around participatory vis...

Egyptian history textbooks are examined through the prism of historical thinking dimensions and skills, utilizing a critical discourse analysis. The analysis focuses on how the textbooks portray two historically significant events: the advent of Christianity (ca. 33 CE) and Islam (ca. 641 CE) to Egypt. It reveals that the historical narrative prese...

Social entrepreneurship is making a strong contribution and positive impact in the world. This conclusion is drawn from the analysis of the numerous successful models across sectors in different regions of the world (Bornstein, 1998; Light, 2008; Bornstein and Davis, 2010). In some contexts, social entrepreneurship is also known as “social enterpri...