Today, precariousness seems to be the leitmotiv of life for young people in the Middle East and North Africa. This precariousness is experienced differently depending on a young person’s social class, gender, place of residence, citizenship status, etc., but overall the current generation is faced with a much more difficult transition into adult life than their predecessors due to a variety of factors: insecure and low quality jobs or unemployment, constrained mobility, delays and difficulties in forming a family, finding a house and becoming independent.
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POWER2Youth Final Conference took place on May, 4, 2017 at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Aula Mario Baratto.
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On March 21st, at the EU Parliament in Brussels, SAHWA and POWER2YOUTH presented their main research results followed by a joint debate of experts from both consortia and members of the European Parliament and the European Commission.
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9 December 2016 - School of Oriental and African Studies, London
The conference has explored the predicament of young women and men in and from the MENA region in contemporary times. It brought together scholars and activists with the aim to analyse the visions, desires and projects emerging in the post-uprisings contexts among youth individuals, affective communities, social and political movements and social non-movements.
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The Power2Youth Conference was launched at the Faculty of Juridical Economic and Social Sciences-Souissi, Mohamed V, University in Rabat on the 19th of October.
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The Power2Youth Meeting took place in Rabat from the 19th to the 21st of October
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By Ibrahim Elur, Nadine Sika and Hatem Zayed (In-Depth Case Study)
The paper is concerned with understanding endogenous and exogenous student activism in authoritarian regimes, by focusing on the case study of Egypt from the 1960s until today. The first part of the paper is dedicated to a definition of “student movements” and “youth activism” in their various forms. The second presents a historical analysis of student movements in the Arab world in general and in Egypt in particular.
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By Françoise De Bel-Air
The aim of the paper is to analyse the dominant trends of demographic evolution in South and East Mediterranean (SEM) countries since the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the evolution of demographic policies and popular debates surrounding the shift. It seeks to highlight from these two sources the deep socio-demographic rifts dividing youth and societies in the SEM countries today, in the mid-2010s.
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By Abeer Musleh
This paper aimed at learning about policies in the occupied Palestinian territories and the extent to which they are sensitive towards youth. It explored the change in the Palestinian society’s perception and status of youth as a result of the shift in the sociopolitical context. The change in the perception about youth was also a result of the change in actors in the area of youth and the practices they utilize.
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Discussing the "You Stink " campaign in Lebanon, Mona Harb from the American University in Beirut underlines the new features of youth activism in the country.
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