Introduction: Schools as sites of lived and imagined citizenship -- The late Mubarak era, education and the research -- Living the intensities of the privatized state : the functioning and implications of marketization across the system -- Everyday violence and the dynamics of punishment across the schools -- Gendered noncompliance and the breakdown of discipline -- Textbook narratives of nationalism, belonging and citizenship -- Performing the nation, imagining citizenship : school rituals and oppositional narratives of non-belonging -- What changed in education since the Revolution? Conclusion: Schooling the nation in the shadow of the uprising.