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  • Arab youth social media addiction reaches crisis levels as Gen Z, Millennial mental health declines: Report

    Social media addiction among Arab youth has skyrocketed to crisis levels, contributing to deteriorating mental well-being across the Middle East, the Arab Youth Survey found. The comprehensive study of Arab youth, the Middle East and North Africa’s largest demographic, found that a staggering 74 percent of young Arabs now say they struggle to disconnect from social media networks. Shockingly, 61 percent agree that their addiction to platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok has negatively impacted their mental health.

  • Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate drops to 4.8 pct, youth unemployment halved: IMF

    The total rate of unemployment in the Kingdom dropped to 4.8 percent by the end of 2022 from nine percent during COVID-19, reflecting an increase in Saudi workers in the private sector as well as expatriate workers – mainly in the construction and agricultural sectors – returning to above pre-COVID levels.

  • Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate drops to 4.8 pct, youth unemployment halved: IMF

    The total rate of unemployment in the Kingdom dropped to 4.8 percent by the end of 2022 from nine percent during COVID-19, reflecting an increase in Saudi workers in the private sector as well as expatriate workers – mainly in the construction and agricultural sectors – returning to above pre-COVID levels.

  • Arab youth seek certainty in religion and tradition

    The ASDA’BCW results are echoed by Arab Barometer, which regularly surveys public opinion in the Middle East like the public relations company. Michael Robbins, director and co-principal investigator of Arab Barometer, has noted a stark increase in Arab youth wanting clerics to have greater influence on government decisions. “In 2021-2022, roughly half or more in five of ten countries surveyed agreed that religious clerics should influence decisions of government,” Mr. Robbins said.

  • US activists call for blacklisting of Israeli settler ‘Hilltop Youths’

    The call has been made amidst an escalation of settler violence against the Palestinians as settlement expansion is intensified and settlers become more aggressive against non-Jews and their property. Some of the settler attacks are deadly. The latest was the killing of an unarmed Palestinian youth in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah on Friday.

  • Saudi football strategy: International transfers, youth development, women’s league, squad management

    Among a number of new regulations and initiatives to be revealed ahead of the new season, the SPL will increase the playing time of young Saudi players in the league by reducing the age of eligibility from 18 years old to 16 years old, with immediate effect for the 2023-2024 season. A further step focused on youth development will see the reduction squad sizes from the current number of 35 players overall, to 25 senior players with the remaining 10 squad members all having to be under the age of 21 years old, from the 2025-2026 season.

  • Saudi football strategy: International transfers, youth development, women’s league, squad management

    Among a number of new regulations and initiatives to be revealed ahead of the new season, the SPL will increase the playing time of young Saudi players in the league by reducing the age of eligibility from 18 years old to 16 years old, with immediate effect for the 2023-2024 season. A further step focused on youth development will see the reduction squad sizes from the current number of 35 players overall, to 25 senior players with the remaining 10 squad members all having to be under the age of 21 years old, from the 2025-2026 season.

  • Arab youth rank Saudi Arabia as a top-five model nation in the 15th annual ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey

    When asked ‘Which country in the world, if any, you would you most like your country to be like?’ - 11% of Arab men and women aged 18 to 24 across 18 Arab states said Saudi Arabia, the same percentage who named the UK. The UAE ranked first (22%), followed by the US (19%), Canada (16%) and Qatar (15%).

  • Arab youth rank Saudi Arabia as a top-five model nation in the 15th annual ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey

    When asked ‘Which country in the world, if any, you would you most like your country to be like?’ - 11% of Arab men and women aged 18 to 24 across 18 Arab states said Saudi Arabia, the same percentage who named the UK. The UAE ranked first (22%), followed by the US (19%), Canada (16%) and Qatar (15%).

  • Arab Youth Survey 2023: Six in 10 support US ‘disengagement’ from region

    A third of young Arabs believe the US wields the most influence in the region, with a majority wanting this to change. The US was viewed as the country holding the most sway in the Arab world (33 per cent), ahead of the UAE (11 per cent), Saudi Arabia and Israel (both 10 per cent) and Russia (8 per cent), by respondents to the Arab Youth Survey 2023. Sixty-one per cent of those polled said they “strongly or somewhat support” US disengagement from Middle Eastern affairs. However, 66 per cent also said they expected the US to be a stronger ally than Russia over the next five years, while 62 per cent said the US would be a stronger ally than China.