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About The Survey

For 12 years, the Annual ASDA’A BCW Arab Youth Survey has presented evidence-based insights into the hopes, aspirations and attitudes of Arab youth, providing public and private sector organisations with data and analysis to make informed decisions and policies.

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The Findings

What do over 200 million Arab youth have to say about their future?

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WHY WE
DO THIS?

We conduct this survey every year to provide evidence-based insights, offering governments, the private sector and civil society institutions critical information and analysis to inform their decision-making and policies.

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Expert Commentary

Leading commentators offer their perspectives on the key findings of the 2020 ASDA'A BCW Arab Youth Survey

SUNIL JOHN

President - Middle East of BCW and Founder of ASDA'A BCW
Time for Arab youth dividend to pay off

Mina Al Oraibi
AFSHIN MOLAVI

Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC
Listen to the voice of pragmatism

Khalid Al Maeena
Dr.JIHAD AZOUR

Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department
COVID-19 accelerates need for a new social contract

Sunil John
EMAN ALHUSSEIN

Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC
Arab youth view religion as important but feel alienated from its current form

Bernard Haykel
MINA AL-ORAIBI

Editor-in-Chief of The National, Abu Dhabi
More efforts needed to help women secure greater rights

Hassan Hassan
HUSSEIN IBISH

Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC
UAE pioneers a new model of social, cultural and religious pluralism

Hussein Ibish
KIM GHATTAS

Journalist, analyst and author of ‘Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East’
The anguish and rage of Sunni majority capitals on Iran’s role

Raed Barqawi
MUNA SHIKAKI

Correspondent for Al-Arabiya News Channel, Washington DC
‘If you can’t get them in eight seconds, you have lost them’

Osama Al Sharif