Egypt strikes two revolutions from history textbooks
Egypt's Ministry of Education is omitting the January 25 and June 30 revolutions from school history textbooks after a question in the official exams stirred controversy.
CAIRO — Egypt’s Ministry of Education announced June 17 that the revolutions of Jan. 25, 2011, and June 30, 2013, will not be mentioned in high school history textbooks for the academic year 2017-18. This has stirred a widespread controversy among parliamentarians and educational experts, and between opponents and supporters of the revolutions.
The ministry had included in the history curriculum the events of the January 25 Revolution in 2012 and the uprisings of June 30 in 2014.
The ministry’s announcement came following a controversy among students and parents about a question related to the June 30 mass protests in the history exam for Egypt’s high school students on June 11.
Students sitting for the exam were asked to write a paper on the following scenario: “How would things be if [Abdel Fattah] al-Sisi had never given the June 30 speech?”
