Life on the Edge III: Hassan and the Graduates

Months before the Egyptian uprising, this film explained some of the issues behind it -- young people without jobs or hope, and the desperate measures the government was taking to ease their plight. When Hassan's wife first saw the plot of land that was to be their new home, she said, "I can only see the sky connected to the desert," and refused to get out of their car. Hassan was a bright young Egyptian graduate who like many in Egypt -- and across the world -- had believed his young family would have a bright future in the city. Now he's been tempted by a government offer of land to any graduate willing to farm it. Have Hassan and 40,000 other graduates been true pioneers, when the knowledge economy worldwide isn't providing enough jobs?

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• Education
• tertiary
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• Egypt
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