A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through childrens picture books published in Egypt in the post2000 era Childrens picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators and as cultural objects they are an expression of the zeitgeist of a particular era. They reveal much about the hopes values and aspirations of the society that produces them as well as that societys vision of its place in the wider world at large. Childrens Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society examines a new wave of Egyptian picture books that was published in the current century to see how these books responded to larger societal trends and transformations in Egypt as well as to explore the ideologies that lie behind them.