Read: September 2008
This is a book about special needs in Egypt, written in 2002 and published by AUC. It looks at the history of disability in Egypt, legislation and the many NGOs and schools that exist for disabled people. The book contains individual perspectives and extensive interviews with key players.
Coming to Egypt with a background in disability and knowing that I would be working in the area of special educational needs I really wanted to read and have this book. It is a valuable resource for me, and would be for anyone else in the field. The main section of it takes on an almost directory format to look at the schools catering for special needs.
Although the interviews with disability activists and disabled people give a human perspective on the current climate of disability issues here in Egypt, it is dissapointing that there is not more of a political agenda in this book. It is very much looking back at where the disabled people and the disability climate has come from, rather than looking forward to what should happen for disability equality. Mrs Susanne Mubarak has written the forward and I wonder whether they authors balanced the desire for a political agenda with a desire for current political approval.
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