The Middle East Youth Initiative joins with the international community in celebrating International Youth Day on August 12. Adopted by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 1995, International Youth Day is an occasion to promote awareness of the critical need to improve the well-being of young people, with a particular focus on engaging youth in developing countries.
In the MEYI Multimedia section, some of the most forward-thinking scholars in the field discuss their work on youth in the Middle East, factors that have led to their economic exclusion, and how the next U.S. president can build stronger ties with the Middle East and boost development by supporting the aspirations of the youth generation.
Dr. Tarik Yousef spoke to 'Al-Iktesadeya' newspaper about youth unemployment and the labor market in the Middle East. Dr. Yousef is Dean of the Dubai School of Government and Senior Nonresident Fellow at Brookings' Wolfensohn Center for Development.
The Education for Employment Foundation's Construction Management Training and Job-Placement Program in the West Bank, which teaches unemployed Palestinian engineering graduates new, transferable skills and places them in guaranteed jobs, is featured on CNN Headline News.
The Middle East Youth Initiative's Youth Ambassador from Tunisia, Samar Mezghanni, gives her perspective on being a role model for young people on BBC World's "Have Your Say" program.