The Deanship of Student Affairs and Evening Studies participated on 29-30 of May 2016 in the “Youth against Extremism” conference that was under the Patronage of his Highness Sheikh Abdulla Bin Khalid Al Khalifa in Isa Cultural Centre. The conference aim was to reach out the Bahraini Youth and to discuss the issues and challenges they face in light of the wave of ideological extremism affecting the region, and their role in addressing it.

Our students including Ali Atiyah Al Rumaihi, Maryam Abdulkareem Baslar and Noor Riyadh Al Saie took part in the conference through a research project that was academically supervised by Dr Faiza Zitouni and entitled “Youth Against Extremism”, the research was two folded, the first part was to identify the challenges faced by the Bahraini Youth and the second part was to further evaluate the causes and effects of the most prominent challenges. The results showed that excessive social media has an impact on the Youth and Extremism, and hence a set of recommendations were provided to prevent youth extremism in the Bahraini society.

ASU students presented their project amongst 18 other papers conducted by students from different universities in Bahrain. At the end of the conference, the students demanded to establish a national committee and develop a media strategy to fight extremism and terrorism.  ASU and their students were honored for their tremendous and active participation. Mr. Mohammed Al Najjar and Ms. Hadeel Bucheerei worked hard in supervising and getting our students ready to present their work and empowering them to be creative and thinking out of the box during the presentation and discussion sessions.