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Youth::Articles

Dina Shehata
Arab Reform Initiative - October, 2008
Youth activism is demonstrating unique characteristics that are setting it apart from the earlier waves of youth activism in Egypt. It is occurring largely outside existing parties; it is nonideological, inclusive and internally diverse, and is largely taking place outside their traditional place of operation, the university campuses. Interestingly, Islamist youths are this time playing a secondary role in the current wave of youth activism.
Diane Singerman
Brookings Wolfensohn Center - December, 2007
he Middle East today is a very youthful region, due to the consequences of the demographic transition. As mortality declined and life spans rose, youthful cohorts are now marrying later in life. Delayed marriage has become the norm, particularly for men who may not marry until their late twenties or thirties. The political and economic context of delayed marriage is causing debate and controversy in the Muslim world, since early and universal marriage had been the norm and sexuality had been linked to marriage.
Ragui Assad and Ghada Barsoum
Brookings Wolfensohn Center - December, 2007
Egypt is at a stage in its demographic transition with a marked "youth bulge," a period in which the proportion of youth in the population increases significantly compared to other age groups. The objective of this paper is to look closely at youth in Egypt with the lens of exclusion as a guiding conceptual framework. The crux of the exclusion framework is that while some experience a successful transition to jobs, financial stability and personal independence with the ability to form families of their own; others experience unemployment; end up with dead-end low-paying jobs, and defer forming families due to the high financial costs of this important life transition in Egypt.
Djavad Salehi-Isfehani and Daniel Egel
Brookings Wolfensohn Center - December, 2007
Using conceptual frameworks relating to social exclusion literature and life transitions, the inclusion of youth and their successful transition to adulthood is analyzed in this paper by looking at three dimensions: acquiring skills for productive employment, finding a job and setting up a family.
Brahim Boudarbat, Aziz Ajbilou
Brookings Wolfensohn Center - December, 2007
But unfortunately, todays youth face severe economic and social exclusion hampering their transitions to adulthood. Youth exclusion is determined by many factors including illiteracy and unemployment. Moreover, exclusion is not just a condition but rather a process which marginalizes certain individuals. This process varies with context (e.g.urban versus rural) and is constantly evolving. In this paper we will outline how youth cohort and their expectations and focus on the economic dimensions of youth exclusion. In understanding the consequences of economic exclusion, however, we also extend our analysis to look at various social and political dimensions.
Nader Kabbani and Noura Kamel
Brookings Wolfensohn Center - December, 2007
A combination of factors contributes to actual or potential economic exclusion of young people in Syria. This paper focuses on three of them: economic, social, and institutional. Instead of drawing attention to the multidimensionality of youth economic exclusion, our paper highlights the interaction among the contributing factors. We suggest that multiple risk factors associated with youth economic exclusion add to one another so that they have a stronger cumulative effect than they would individually.