Publications:

Youth Collective Agency (Meso-Level)

• Youth Civil and Political Engagement in Egypt

  October 03, 2016

  by Nadine Sika (Country Case Study)

  This paper investigates the extent to which young people are included or excluded in the social, economic, cultural and political spheres in Egypt. Based on fieldwork conducted among young people between March-December 2015, the paper...

• Youth Mobilisation in Lebanon: Navigating Exclusion and Seeds for Collective Action

  October 03, 2016

  by Mona Harb (Country Case Study)

  This paper investigates youth mobilization in Lebanon. It is organized in two main sections. The first section analyses patterns of youth inclusion and exclusion in the context of Lebanese sectarian politics, showing how partisan grou...

• Youth Inclusion Through Civic Engagement in NGOs after the Tunisian Revolution

  October 03, 2016

  by Pierre Tainturier (In-Depth Case Study)

  The Tunisian uprising led to a massive expansion of new civil society organizations. The institutional framework has become more favourable for civic engagement as Tunisian institutions, supported by their international partners, have...

• Cities and Political Change: How Young Activists in Beirut Bred an Urban Social Movement

  October 14, 2016

  by Mona Harb (In-Depth Case Study)

  The paper investigates how young activists in Beirut bred an urban social movement. It is organized in two parts: the first discusses the context of urban policies and governance in Beirut, and how it has generated a dismal state of p...

• Youth Activism in Morocco

  October 14, 2016

  by Azeddine Akesbi, Saloua Zerhouni (Country Case Study)

  The existing literature on youth participation shows that there is a noticeable tendency of weak participation in formal politics among Moroccan youth. However, it does not tell us much about the alternative modes of youth engagement....

• Youth Exclusion and the Transformative Impact of Organized Youth in Turkey

  October 26, 2016

  by Ali Alper, AkyüzPinar, Gümüs Volkan, Yilmaz Ferhat, Mahir Çakaloz and Nurhan Yentürk (COUNTRY CASE STUDY)

  This paper provides a brief overview of youth organizations in Turkey, focusing in particular on the perception of youth organizations and the concepts of “youth” and “youth participation and exclusion” as well as the impact of youth ...

• Organizational Factors of Youth Exclusion and Inclusion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

  December 09, 2016

  by Birzeit University (Country Case Study)

  The paper deals with youth collective agency in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). After describing the structural context constraining young women’s and men’s mobilization in the OPT, the paper moves on to investigate how yo...

• Varieties of Youth Civic and Political Engagement in the South East Mediterranean: A Comparative Analysis

  January 25, 2017

  by Nadine Sika (Comparative Conclusion)

  This paper comparatively analyses the research carried out in six South-East Mediterranean countries (Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, the Occupied Palestinian Territories [OPT], Lebanon and Egypt) on the transformative potential of youth ci...

• Gender, Intersectionality and Youth Civic and Political Engagement. An Analysis of the Meso-Level Factors of Youth Exclusion/Inclusion in the South and East Mediterranean (SEM) Region

  February 10, 2017

  by Ruba Salih, Lynn Welchman and Elena Zambelli (Comparative Conclusion)

  This paper contains a discussion of how gender, sexuality, class and race interplay, enabling or obstructing different pathways and modalities of youth civic and political engagement in the countries of the South-Eastern Mediterranean...

• The Student Movement in Egypt. A Microcosm of Contentious Politics

  October 03, 2016

  by Ibrahim Elnur, 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 ...