Young Algerians see scant hope for future
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In the evening after last week's parliamentary polls, the narrow roads of Algeria's capital were tightly packed with honking cars, youths leaning out of windows, sunroofs and open boots, cheering and waving the national flag.
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RABAT, Morocco  - They share the same language,  religion and culture but the dramatically different political  histories of Algeria and Morocco have bred mistrust and enmity.
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Since the death of the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, a mood has been spreading in the Middle East that had not been felt for a long time: optimism.
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Nacera Berrouba, a young Algerian in Paris, says she couldn't get the job she dreamed of until she dyed her hair blond.
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Lacking confidence, out of sorts and unable to score goals, the French are at their lowest ebb in a decade. Amid the mediocrity, scrappy play and somber mood in the French camp, the outstanding form of Fabien
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Despite a rise in terror attacks, Algerians seem more concerned about getting mugged.
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&quot;Walking around here, you get the sense that this is not a country like France -- it's a poor country,&quot; says Cynthia, a French teenager among the dozens who have been sent to Senegal under a groundbreaking community service program to aid troubled youths.
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The poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunity that afflict many of Turkeyâs cities are crushing in the regional capital of Trabzon â especially for young people.
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Skeptical of foreign aid's promise, many are creating their own jobs through clever, small-scale entrepreneurial activities.
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For the first time in four years, the donor nations that sustain the Palestinian economy have reason for optimism. For now, however, that optimism won't mean more money for the Palestinians.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s disappearance from the scene has raised hopes that perhaps a window of opportunity to a new era has now opened.
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Once again, Lebanon's children are seeing what they shouldn't &#151; visions of death and destruction that may scar them for life. And those are the survivors.
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The release of Mohammed Abbou gives human rights advocates hope, and perhaps a formula for more political freedoms in the North African nation.
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A youth movement seeks the ideological cultivation, some say indoctrination, of the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.
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The sight of women working as bus and taxi drivers, petrol pump attendants or police officers in Algeria's larger towns can surprise newcomers by suggesting women are emancipated in Algeria. They are not, feminists say.
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But many young activists are still struggling to maintain the movement that followed in the wake of Hariri's death.
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While senior Israeli and Palestinian officials were cautiously optimistic about the rapprochement between them, some political analysts and people on the street said they could not shake their pessimism about the future, despite signs that things could get better.