Download or read book Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt written by Heidi Morrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt.