Youth Articles

This platform is dedicated to youth to voice out their opinions, debate, reflect, and most importantly, let their ideas be heard. All publications in this section are written by young individuals, mostly university students, in their own unedited voices. You may choose to publish a paper you have worked on as part of your studies or simply choose an issue that catches your attention and reflect upon it in an article of your own.

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Articles

Gender Stereotypes and the Lasting Impact for Generations

Gender in the Arab region, functioning the way it does in today’s society, is particularly iron-fisted yet versatile. It is present in almost every aspect of existence from performance expectations to performance enforcement through laws, societal backlash, and more. In the said region, such behaviors expected or prescribed of females manifests in both public and…

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Sitting Around the Tajine: How I Discovered I Was a Girl

My two older brothers and I loved the bonding experience of gathering around the tajine and warming our small bodies while waiting for dinner. Some of our most serious conversations, our favorite inside jokes, and our hardest life decisions as a family were made around the tajine. However, it was not always fun and giggles…

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Achieving Gender Equality (SDG 5): A Better Future For Women & Rising Generations

A fundamental aspect of achieving gender equality has always been providing equal rights to men and women. Despite seeing some progress towards achieving this goal, women and girls still face discrimination and rights violations every day and are still being disadvantaged compared to men worldwide, explaining why it is still one of the Sustainable Development…

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Poetry

Monologue

I know that I know nothing, that’s what he once said.

I was thinking, all my life, that I have the ability to keep my ideas together, to marshal them, to get meaning out of them forcefully. Yet, what was perplexing me is that there’s not enough time to get more ideas, to quench the…

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The Beast

There was a time I believed hearts naturally pour and plunge into pools of love, There was a time my eyes saw the world in a rose-colored light, There was a time I sang paper moon songs and danced to their polka tunes, There was a time my wide eyed zeal for life was gigantic…

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Poem Analysis

In “Revolt Against The Sun”, Nazik al-Mala’ika expressed her thoughts about women of the Middle East and South Africa region through her exceptional poetic capability to create such a piece of art. A naïve examination reflects this poem as if a burst of emotions without any intention more meaningful, deeper intention. However, a thorough analysis…

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