MUST-READS

• Vision 2030
  Foreign investment, youth workshops imperative to achieve Saudi Vision 2030

  Asked about the key factors to stimulate productivity and competitiveness in the market, he said in addition to opening the market for foreign investors, educational training and workshops must be prioritized to make the economy more knowledge-based, as 29.5% of Saudi Arabia’s youth aged 15-24 are unemployed.

• Kaaba
  Saudi Youth Weave ‘Kaaba’s’ Attire

  The Technical and Vocational Training Corporation in Mecca has recruited its youth to work on weaving and dying the Kaaba’s attire. 30 young Saudi male graduates of the Industrial Institute in Mecca mastered the work on the biggest sewing machine in the world, following a one-year training program that included seven specialized phases to manufacture the attire of Kaaba.

• Intellect Jeddah
  Intellect Jeddah: Educating Youth in the Kingdom

  In this feature, Renad discusses how the 2009 Jeddah floods led her to become more civically engaged, how regional events and changing civil society laws in Saudi Arabia have impacted Intellect Jeddah’s work, and the importance the group places on providing young Jeddawi women greater educational opportunities and space for their voices to be heard.

• Arab Youth
  Youth voices: The missing link in Middle East politics

  Empowering and engaging the youth of the Arab world is a key factor for the establishment of long-term security and stability of the region

• Vision 2030
  AGSIW: The Youth Appeal of Saudi Vision 2030

  The directness of MbS’ responses and his emphasis on transparency and periodic performance evaluations of government bring a new aura of business and accountability to the kingdom that is crafted to resonate with younger Saudis raised on the open communication of social media.

• Youth in the Arab World
  Survey: Support for Saudi Arabia highest among youth in Gulf states

  For the fifth consecutive year, Arab youth consider Saudi Arabia to their country’s biggest ally, highlighting their continued trust in the Kingdom as regional tensions peak, according to the findings of the 8th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey.

• Iran
  Novel app helps Iran youth beat overbearing ′morality police′

  Locals failing to conform to the Gasht-e-Ershad's requests are often forced into the back of a minivan and taken to a correctional facility where they are lectured on how to be the perfect citizen, fined, or even prosecuted.

• Israel - Palestine
  Palestinian uprising: Upstart website feeds youth the news they want

  Using a network of about one dozen freelance correspondents and 60 volunteer field reporters, Quds News Network combines breaking coverage with the fast distribution of graphic video content to its social networks.

  • LRB - The End of the Abbas Era
  • AAI - Perspective: Strangling Jerusalem
• Palestine
  Two Palestinian youths killed as violence in West Bank spikes

  Two Palestinian youths were killed by Israeli soldiers in 24 hours of raging Palestinian protests and harsh Israeli countermeasures as security officials on both sides expressed fears Monday that tensions could spiral out of control.

• Arab Youth
  Perspective: The Promise of Arab Youth: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow

  But the concerns of youth are still very practical. In a recent opinion poll interviewing youth from 16 Arab countries,[1] unemployment remained at the top of their list of priorities. Half a million new young people enter the Arab job market every year. The challenge of growth and job creation will remain the key strategic goal for the region for the coming decades.

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