Saudi Arabia's Youth Unemployment Woes: <i>Foreign Policy</i>

Idle Kingdom:Explores Saudi Arabia's Unemployment Woes

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia—In the wide stretch of the Middle East bypassed by revolution, Arab spring turned to Arab summer peacefully but not altogether promisingly for the Arab world's largest-ever surge of young people. In Saudi Arabia, more than half-a-million proud high school and college seniors crossed the stage at graduation ceremonies. The new graduates step into a job market featuring the highest regional youth unemployment rate in the world.

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