The Middle East (general catch all)

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A short article on the changes in the MENA that are unlikely to be on the political agenda: water shortages, climate change and jobs.

The end result:

...people will begin to move north in large numbers.

A fourth factor could accelerate this:

..the decline in marriage across the region, which in the restrictive MENA societies means many young men have no hope of having normal sexual relations. Little more than a decade ago, about 60 percent of Middle Eastern men married by their late twenties. Today, the figure is just over 50 percent, and Iran it is 38 percent. There is a new generation of young men who cannot afford to marry, have no work, cannot leave home and are sexually frustrated. The traditional passage to adult life, its responsibilities and joys, is barred to them.

Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-a...policy-desert?