Th e Arab “Youth Quake”: Implications on Democratization and Stability
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...12 Hvistendahl 2011; Al-Momani 2011, 159–61....
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...Socioeconomic unrests that have marked the African geopolitical landscape in recent years have been largely due to high unemployment rates (Sakbani, 2011; Mohammad, 2011)....
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...The use of cell phones and social media such as email, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were vital vehicles in both ‘sustaining reform movement within countries and spreading the wave of demonstrations across the region’ (Mohammad, 2011: 159)....
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...According to Mohammad (2011), unemployed youths’ political frustrations were ‘aggravated by their inability to express themselves in tightly controlled police state’, combined with ‘political corruption and the incapability of the state to deal with social and economic problems’ (p.159)....
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...…generational standpoint like in the Arab uprisings (Herrera 2012, 340) or mirroring a “youth quake” unfolding across the Middle East and beyond (Al-Momani 2011; Sloam and Henn 2019), “youth” conveys a positioning organic to post-Nakba Palestinian politics while also carrying the legacy of…...
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