MEI-KW Middle East Series 02
YOUTH BLOOM IN GCC

Dr Sameena Hameed (ed.)

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.

Dr Sameena Hameed (ed.) is Assistant Professor at the Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She writes, teaches and researches on the Gulf region, especially India’s economic and energy relations with it. She co-authored Persian Gulf 2020 and Persian Gulf 2021-22, both published by Palgrave Macmillan, and she is also the book review editor of Contemporary Review of the Middle East (Sage).

Contents

About MEI@ND
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Contributors

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. MuddassirQuamar
4. Digital Transformation and Governance in Bahrain
Rhea Abraham
5. The Youth and the Political Participation in the Gulf Cooperation Council States
NawarKassomeh
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
RaahatVerma
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 & the Youth
PrabhatJawla
14. Youth Dial Technology to Connect Economy and Foreign Policy
N. Janardhan