Youth in the Middle East: dying to escape from governments and parents

Dr Nader Kabbani, director of research and policy at the Arab social innovation organisation Silatech, told the Emirates Foundationphilanthropy summit that the establishment of legally-defined enterprise zones where refugees could set up businesses aimed at export markets could generate opportunities for unemployed young Syrian refugees.

Speaking at a session on how the private sector can tackle youth unemployment, Dr Kabbani said that economic activity in Jordan had increased as a result of the influx of refugees from neighbouring Syria.

Dr Bessma Momani, a senior fellow at the Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation thinktank and Brookings Institution, …