Unemployment as one among several contributors to youth alienation comes up repeatedly in discussions of radicalization, and it stands to reason that young people with no prospects may be easily lured by promises of work and status. The statistics on youth unemployment in MENA are stunning, the highest in the world, ranging between 25% and 60% in much of the region, according to a recent report by Education for Employment.
Certainly youth in the region are keenly aware of the problem; in a recent survey of 18-35-year old residents of MENA countries, on average 80% said that unemployment is a major issue, with that figure rising to over 90% among those surveyed in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Compounding the problem is the fact that those with university educations are even more likely than their less-educated counterparts to be unemployed or underemployed, and to be stuck in a prolonged period of "waithood"; observers since de Tocqueville have noted that those who rebel are often not the most disadvantaged members of a society, but rather those with disappointed expectations of economic and social advancement.
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