Queen Rania: Have You Heard About The Arab World's 'Startup Spring'? — huffingtonpost.com

Everyone has heard about the Arab Spring, the wave of popular revolts that swept through countries like Tunisia, Egypt and Libya in 2011, but did you know the Arab world is currently going through a "Startup Spring"? Queen Rania of Jordan posed that question Thursday in a conversation with The Huffington Post's Editor-In-Chief, Arianna Huffington, at The WorldPost Future of Work Conference. The Jordanian queen told Huffington that technology is providing new opportunities for many young people in the Arab world and can be an important factor in tackling one of the region's most pervasive problems: unemployment.

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