[General] Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that

[tahasozgen]

Dear friends of usingenglish.com

There is a sentence that I can not understand.

"Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that have stripped the very notion of cizitenship of meaning."

I understand Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that , however, I can not understand the rest. What is its meaning?

 

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Please tell us the source and author of your quote.

 

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[STRIKE]Dear friends of usingenglish.com[/STRIKE] Hello/Hi.

There is a sentence that I [STRIKE]can not[/STRIKE] cannot understand.

"Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that have stripped the very notion of cizitenship of meaning."

I understand Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that. However, I [STRIKE]can not[/STRIKE] cannot understand the rest. What is its meaning?

While we wait for you to give us the source and author of the text, please note my corrections above.

 

[tahasozgen]

Source is the New York Times (Newspaper)
Author is Azadeh Moavenijan.
Article is "The Lingering Dream of an Islamic State".

Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that have stripped the very notion of citizenship of meaning. There’s no work to be had, a majority cannot afford to get married before 40, the police terrorize young people for bribes, and when they try to seek some redress in Islam-based activism, state security punishes them.

 

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There is a sentence that I can not understand.

"Across the Middle East, young Muslims belong to a generation living in countries that have stripped the very notion of citizenship [STRIKE]cizitenship[/STRIKE] of meaning."

The story is about the Middle East. It says that countries in that region have made citizenship meaningless. A generation of Muslims, described as "young", lives in those countries.

The article should go on to explain why the author thinks that Middle-Eastern countries have deprived their inhabitants of meaningful citizenship. I haven't read it, so I don't know.

 

[jutfrank]

If it helps, the verb structure used here is

• to strip something of meaning
  

which means to cause something to lose its meaning.

(In this case, 'something' is the notion of citizenship.)