The ruining of Egypt

IN EGYPT they are the , “coffee-shop guys”; in Algeria they are the , “those who lean with their backs to the wall”; in Morocco they go by the French term, , “graduate-jobless”. Across the Arab world the ranks of the young and embittered are swelling.In most countries a youth bulge leads to an economic boom. But Arab autocrats regard young people as a threat—and with reason. Better educated than their parents, wired to the world and sceptical of political and religious authority, the young were at the forefront of the uprisings of 2011. They toppled rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, and alarmed the kings and presidents of many other states.