Social media has become a key part of almost all of the Arab youth life. Facebook & Whatsapp rank the top used social media channels among the Arab young people. Both of them grab a rate of 68% in 2017. YouTube ranks at the third (50%), followed by Instagram (48%) and then Snapchat (42%). On …

Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the whole Arab countries, especially among young Arabs. In 2017, 64% of Arab youth use Facebook to share interesting news articles they read, with an increased rate 12% than 2016.

Social media nowadays has an essential role in making young Arabs people informed with the daily news. Facebook is the main daily news source for 35% of them, while 31% use other online news sources, and 30% use TV news channels.

39% of Arab youth surveyed about TV & Online News Sources said that they get their daily news online, 29% said they watch TV news, just 7% read newspapers daily. So using online news sources to get the latest news has increased in 2016 to reach a rate of 45%, compared to 40% in 2015. …

Youth in the Middle East became better educated, better connected, and more aware of the developments around them than ever before through all of the tools of information technology. The total population in Egypt reached 93.38 M citizens, 48.3 M of them are using the internet with a 51.7 % penetration rate, and 27 M …