Ms. Oubada Kasar (LAU), Ms. Nadine Mazloum (Newsroom Nomad), and Dr. Khaled Nasser (LAU) moderated by Ms. Nada Abdul Samad discussed the relation between media and youth radicalization. Ms. Oubada Kasar talked about her findings from a study about she conducted around the usage of media among youths and its connectedness to radicalization. The study exhibited the presence of political, religious, tribal, patriarchal, and authoritarian radical ideologies among the youth due to excessive use of the Internet and social media. Dr. Khalid Nasser pointed out the social identity versus the personal identity in the discussion about radicalization among youth in Lebanon and attributed poverty, crisis in Lebanon, and oppression as factors for radicalization among Lebanese youth.
