The UN Department for Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) celebrates International Youth Day every year on August [...]
Recent Articles by Amal
Tourism
Op-Ed: Accessibility and community-based experiences are the ABCs of post-pandemic tourism
World Tourism Day is celebrated on the African continent this year, namely by Côte D’Ivoire under the [...]
Higher education
Op-Ed: How the USAID Scholars Activity is creating young change agents for sustainable food systems
Against the backdrop of flames blazing through Greece and Turkey, floods inundating Chinese and German provinces, heat [...]
Entrepreneurship
Op-Ed: Could small and medium enterprises nudge education?
Enterprise or entrepreneurship education has been ‘en vogue’ for quite some time before the hype around Sustainable [...]
Women empowerment
The future needs more women with STEM skills
According to Egypt’s National Strategy for Women Empowerment 2030, raising the female labor force participation rate to [...]
International Volunteer Day 2020
Op-ed: Together we can, through “voluntourism”?
“Together we can through volunteering” is the theme of International Volunteer Day 2020. The day was celebrated [...]
Entrepreneurship
Op-ed: Entrepreneurship education to reap the potential harvest of a young population
With the second wave of COVID-19 soaring in the background, Global Entrepreneurship Week took place from 16-22 [...]
International Youth Day 2020
Volunteer in Every Street: a story of how young energies were engaged in crisis response
With a decade to go towards the realization of the sustainable development agenda through its seventeen goals, [...]
Youth skills
Vocational skills: A still untapped potential for Egypt
While the notion of life-long learning emerged in 1970, however, it has brought to the forefront recently [...]
Entrepreneurial universities
How 'entrepreneurial universities' are tackling the effects of COVID-19 in Egypt
The term “entrepreneurial universities” was coined nearly four decades ago to describe universities that effectively deliver on [...]
