Youth Arab Research Network Updates

Youth Arab Research Network

June 2010 update:

IARS has been working with two research teams of young people in Yemen and Saudi Arabia as part of the British Council led Youth Arab Research Network (YARN) as part of its Global Change Makers initiative.

The Yemen team have now completed their research report on the affect of television on youth identity. This is a unique and original piece of work that investigates what affects that local, regional and international programming has had on their sense of national, regional and global identities. The findings will be made available soon.

IARS will be working with the British Council, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Institute for Public Policy Research to produce a final report for the YARN to be released in the UK in October and at the World Economic Forum to be held in Morocco. To find out more information please e-mail l.parle@iars.org.uk

December 2009 update:

IARS travelled to Beirut as part of a YARN meeting that brought together young people from different Arab states, including Yemen and Saudi Arabia, who IARS has been working with.

The meeting was very exciting and enabled the young researchers from each Arab state to share with the other young people their findings from their research projects on identity. At the meeting IARS held workhops on data analysis and report writing. Workhops were also held by the London School of Economics and Political Science and Institute for Public Policy Research.

June 2009 update:

IARS's involvement in the Youth Arab Research Network kicked off in the exciting and buzzing city of Cairo. IARS along with other organisations including the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Institute for Public Policy Research attended the project meetings to provide research and policy expertise to the young researchers.

During the project meetings the young researchers decided that the topic they would investigate would be identity. This topic was a powerful statement for a group of young people who felt that they were not often listened to in the worlds of policy and academia and wanted an opportunity to define for themselves who they are.