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Youth & Revolution

A Call to Reform Higher Education in Yemen

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The youth bulge in a country like Yemen in which a quarter of its estimated 25 million population is between 10 and 19 years of age, 46% of them under 16, has raised many societal challenges and played a central role in the country’s revolutionary transition since 2011 (Ahmed, 2013).

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  1. Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, University of Guelph, Canada

    Eid Mohamed

  2. Sam Houston State University, USA

    Hannah R. Gerber

  3. Sam Houston State University, USA

    Slimane Aboulkacem

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Mahdi, W.F., Al-Hattami, A.A. (2016). Youth & Revolution. In: Mohamed, E., Gerber, H.R., Aboulkacem, S. (eds) Education and the Arab Spring. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-471-8_5

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