A Young World - The Palestinian Territories

The Compass

• Episode: A Young World - The Palestinian Territories
• Website: The Compass
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p035w97h/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:26:49
• Published: 2017-05-31 02:00

The Palestinian territories have the youngest population in the Middle East with a median age under 21. How do these young people express themselves culturally? Nida Ibrahim, the BBC’s Ramallah producer, finds the challenges of conservatism and poverty mean that artists and performers find they have to struggle to be recognised – with many only able to find an audience via new media. (Photo: Muhammad Mughrabi, a Palestinian rapper living in East Jerusalem)