Palestine in Egyptian Educational Consciousness After October 7: Between Awakening and Official Stagnation
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https://doi.org/10.70091/Atras/vol06no02.16Keywords:
Academic freedom, national identity, Palestinian issue, political education, symbolic resistanceAbstract
This research examines the attitudes of university students in Egypt toward resistance, solidarity with the Palestinian cause, and everyday boycott practices, positioning the university as a site of political and intellectual struggle. The main aim is to explore how students navigate political constraints within academic institutions. Through semi-structured Zoom interviews with 48 education students from various Egyptian universities, the study reveals that while political expression on campus is limited by implicit boundaries, students engage in indirect forms of resistance—such as consumer boycotts and cultural symbolism—as strategies to contest political and cultural hegemony. The findings underscore the role of higher education in fostering political consciousness and symbolic resistance, affirming that universities remain contested ideological spaces where youth creatively engage with national and regional political realities.
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