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  • Entrepreneurship
    Saudi youths overcome their fears, launch own businesses

    Many new young graduates are no longer relying on government jobs as the only path to career success, as many have overcome their fears and societal expectations to launch their own profitable businesses in various technical and creative fields.

  • Combating Extremism
    Perspective: Protecting Saudi youth

    We are faced now with the true test of actually doing something instead of just talking and shaking our heads over lost lives in bombing attacks and lost lives to the IS ideology. Although the Saudi educational system has made great progress in minimizing violent rhetoric in our curriculum, we still must vet educators who have a tendency to supplement current curriculum with their own inappropriate secular prejudices. Adding curriculum that challenges violent and un-Islamic ideology is a necessary classroom tool to keep Saudis on the right path starting at a young age.

  • Saudi Youth
    Saudis try to keep Islamic State from recruiting youth

    Al Turki said 2,275 residents had left the kingdom to join extremist groups in Syria since 2011. Of those, 635 had come home, leaving 1,640 still with those groups — or dead.

  • Saudi Economy: Youth
    Discovering Business | Youth Driving Retail Expansion

    A young and rapidly growing population, which topped 29 million in 2013, is the main driver for a rapid growth in the Saudi Arabian retail sector. One third of the population is under the age of 25, prompting retailers across the Kingdom to focus their marketing efforts onto a section of the population that is eager to acquire new technologies and a wide range of consumer goods. Consumer confidence levels are among the highest in MENA, and Saudis are among the most eager consumers in the world, according to A.T. Kearney’s 2013 Global Retail Development Index. Retail sales were expected to increase by 11% in 2013, according to the Index, yet retail sales per capita and disposable income remain lower than in some neighbouring countries, so there is scope for further growth.

  • Saudi Spending Habits
    Raising financial awareness among Saudi youth

    A ground-breaking study in 28 countries by Visa International Literacy Barometer in 2012 found that Saudis scored below average when it came to financial literacy and money saving.

  • Saudi Survey
    High cost of living plaguing Saudi youth: Poll

    Nearly 60 percent of young Saudis ranked the high cost of living as one of their top three issues. Regional disparities are quite apparent: respondents from the east and the south were more likely to cite this as a top concern than were those from the center. In the focus groups, many young Saudis expressed fear that the high cost of living would limit their ability to marry and have children.

  • Islamic State
    Opinion: Let’s teach our youth to build, not destroy

    We need to come up with urgent solutions. We should develop a more effective strategy to confront the dangerous threat of ISIS that continues to gain power and has already reached our borders.

  • Saudi Youth
    The primary concerns of Saudi youth

    It became evident to the consulting group that there were five dominant areas of concern faced by the youth of Saudi Arabia. They were: The high cost of living, the lack of affordable housing, rising crime and violence among their segment, lack of confidence in the education system and finally the scarcity of opportunities for a career and good living.