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Rebellion by the young and the unemployed.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

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A high proportion of young people and widespread unemployment have set the stage for a perfect storm in the Middle East and North Africa. The Internet and Al Jazeera have opened the young to the rest of the world and stoked both the eagerness and the courage to demand major change. But if they succeed, what happens next?

Will the newly empowered inherent stagnant economies

that still deny opportunity and frustrate ambition?

What's being done to prevent crushed expectations

by encouraging entrepreneurship, creating jobs,

and training a 21st century workforce?

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To the Point. Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, countries with young populations and

high unemployment

are seeing massive unrest. What does it mean when young men can't even afford to get married?

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