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  • Over 90% of Saudi youth see US as a strong ally of their nation: ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey

    According to the survey, the perception that the US is an ally of Saudi Arabia is at its highest level in five years. In 2020, 87 per cent of Saudi youth viewed the US as a 'strong ally' or 'somewhat of an ally', an increase in favourability over 2019 when 70 per cent of Saudi youth viewed the US as an ally. In 2018, 50 per cent of Saudi youth viewed the US as an ally.

  • Middle East and North Africa: addressing highest rates of youth unemployment in the world

    Youth unemployment in those countries is almost twice as high as the world average, and has grown 2.5 times faster than world average between 2010 and 2021.

  • 5 innovations from Expo 2020 and what that means for Saudi Youth

    Expo 2020 Dubai has become the breeding ground for innovation that will significantly shape the future, address momentous global challenges, and provide effective solutions to combat them. Expo 2020 Dubai kicked off on October 1, 2021, and will continue until March 31, 2022, with more than 200 participants, including 191 countries, institutions, and international organizations.

  • US’s Lockheed Martin, KFUPM partner to upskill Saudi youth

    US-based aerospace company Lockheed Martin is partnering with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, or KFUPM, on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, or STEM, initiatives to upskill Saudi youth. Both parties aim to increase the number of highly skilled Saudi scientists and engineers, the company said in a statement.

  • Gulf Youth and the Urge for Change

    When you look at how Saudi Arabia is approaching this, you can see the desire to keep a strong Saudi element. From a perspective from yourself or myself—the perspective of someone who looked at Saudi Arabia and put a lot of the character of Saudi Arabia in the old religious establishment and those kinds of links—now there's a desire to really empower this creative class to generate Saudi cultural elements.

  • Startups aren’t just hip. They’re also the key to unlocking youth unemployment in MENA.

    There are an estimated 21,000 startups in MENA compared to the three thousand just four years ago, according to data analytics platform MAGNiTT. The actual figures could be higher when including early-stage companies.

  • Is Saudi Arabia Ready for Its Youth Bulge?

    The recent Arab Youth Survey shows that more Saudi youth have confidence in the future of the country than before. Many of them are starting to look outside the government to the private sector for employment, so I would say the needle has shifted.

  • Arab Youth Survey finds young Saudis increasingly optimistic, reflecting wider regional trend

    Young Arabs are taking an increasingly optimistic view of their prospects in the post-pandemic world, with Saudi youth among the more confident that their lives will improve as the COVID-19 wave recedes. That is one of the main findings of the 2021 annual Asda’a BCW Arab Youth Survey of people in the region, released on Tuesday, showing positivity for the future at a three-year high.

  • Middle East needs a robust youth policy to leverage its human capital

    Data from the World Bank indicates that youth unemployment rates in the MENA region have been the highest in the world for the past 25 years, topping 25.7 percent in 2019. The past decade or so has been particularly exasperating in terms of finding employment, as the region has struggled with a series of crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis, the Arab Spring, armed conflicts, and COVID-19.

  • Saudi youth’s growing ‘fascination’ for Japanese language, anime and arts

    ”I have been very excited and honoured to meet so many Saudi citizens, especially those from the younger generation, who are strongly fascinated with the Japanese pop-culture, such as anime and manga, as well as Japanese traditional arts such as Shodo, which drove so many people to learn the Japanese language,” he said.