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Hana A. El-Ghali is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work focuses on higher education in the Middle East. She is also the Managing Director at the Institute for International Studies in Education.
A Generation in Crisis: Lebanon's Jobless University Graduates
Unemployment is one of the major manifestations of the global economic crisis that began to plague many countries around the globe, beginning in 2007. Developing nations with weak economies and fragile political states were among the hardest hit. In Egypt, one can find PhDs driving taxies. No country can afford, either politically or economically, such well-educated traffic guides. Higher education graduate unemployment rates in Lebanon are high and are unlikely to be reduced soon.
