Youth Bloom in GCC

Contents: 1. Introduction/Sameena Hameed. 2. Who is an Arab Youth?/P R Kumaraswamy. 3. Demography, Governance and Reforms in Saudi Arabia: An Assessment of the Vision 2030/Md. Muddassir Quamar. 4. Digital Transformation and Governance in Bahrain/Rhea Abraham. 5. The Youth and the Political Participation in the Gulf Cooperation Council States/Nawar Kassomeh. 6. Che-Guevara T-Shirts and Changing Idioms of Popular Politics among the Youth in the Arab Gulf Region/M H Ilias. 7. Millennials Drive the Financial Technology in the GCC/Rohit Sharma. 8. From Old Money to New Wealth: Crypto-currency in the GCC/Raahat Verma. 9. The Social and Cultural Realms of Digital Communities in the UAE/Melissa Cyrill. 10. Fractured Narratives of Gender: State, Space and Visibility in the Gulf/Priyanka Chandra. 11. Art as an Emerging Field for the Young GCC Women/Lakshmi Priya. 12. Saudi Young Women as Cultural Intermediaries/Priyanka Mittal. 13. Environmental Action in the GCC: Government and the Youth/ Prabhat Jawla. 14. Youth Dial Technology to Connect Economy and Foreign Policy/N. Janardhan.

As the GCC countries face a youth bulge in their demography, the regimes cultivated them as important constituencies, and have been projecting their pro-youth strategies and policies. Despite several challenges, GCC youth operate from the advantages of relative stability, wealth, connectivity, and a milieu of diverse, skilled, multi-national workforce. With contributions from young minds, this volume looks at the potentials and possibilities for the GCC youths from this vantage point, their adaptations and the challenges facing their development.