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Good weather, stability and warm- hearted people. All sell well with the tourists but how do young Maltese people live? What do they make out of living on a tiny Euro-Med island with ambitions of becoming an international communications hub? How does it feel to be a young person living in densely populated Malta today?

Work and money seem to be the number one preoccupation of most of the Maltese between twenty to thirty years of age. Subsistence, precarious employment and living up to one’s expectations are however only part of the complexities which define youths in present day Malta. Relationships, single-parenthood, immigration and education are still very much on the agenda.

Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip make up the biggest segment of society trapped in a strip of land with the highest population density. Overview on the situation of youth in Gaza.

The active blogs of a few years ago, which scrutinised social violence and confrontations between the opposition and the police, seem to have waned in popularity today. Their success was attained neither by Facebook nor by mini-blogs, like dormant volcanoes whose eruption has been postponed eternally.

What do young Egyptians aspire for today? The generation between 18-29 years of age is ageing prematurely. Young Egyptians don’t dream of fulfilling their dreams anymore or travelling to discover the world. Their ambitions are threatened and their dreams are diminishing due to increasingly bad economic conditions, which haven’t spared any field.

“Tiaret: the town hall’s headquarters besieged by dozens of Young people” is the title of the newspaper ‘Liberté’ of the 1st of February 2009. In this locality, situated in the East of the capital city, young people have stormed the town hall to protest against their life conditions and particularly against unemployment.

Senda and Lydia are two beautiful 17-year-old secondary school students, dressed in the latest European fashion and speak very good French.

Lakhdari Hicham, Mebarki Fatah and Zouari Walid are friends. They are 20 years old and live at Diar Saada and Diar Chems, on Algiers’ heights. In reality they have no home.