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Entrepreneurship is about thriving while having scarce resources, and spotting opportunities in places that might be considered disastrous. Some Syrian youth seem to have adopted this mindset and have formed successful startups in the fields of technology, education and others.

Now in its fifth year, the program has different levels catering to high school and university students, running until March 2017.

While they may be only 16 years of age, IB students Zaid Amer Rahhal and Mazen Rid Hashem are no strangers to the entrepreneurial itch.

Students from Palestine's Birzeit University emerged as the winners of the eighth cycle of the Ripples of Happiness program organized by The Coca-Cola Foundation and INJAZ Al-Arab.

Dubai Minds aims to do away the "awkwardness" surrounding young work experiences, and instead, make them acceptable and celebrated in the workplace.

18-year-old Lebanese 'trep Jihad Kawas puts business over degrees.

Many of the obstacles that young Arab entrepreneurs face when they are trying to start their own ventures are cultural ones that stem from their nuclear family or the surrounding community.