Rob Young

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216 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Sep

Rob Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Business Daily · Rebuilding Gaza and trying to get back to work · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

Others have been trying to reinvent their livelihoods.

Ahmad used to travel the region as an e-sports commentator, but once the borders shut and internet access became very unreliable, he had to adapt fast.

Gaza Sky Geeks, which trains thousands in tech skills, has helped him find a new way forward.

Imagine I need to go to Saudi Arabia but there is no crossing.

I obtained the visa but I couldn't go out.

So I tried to go back to content writing and thankfully I was able to work even from tents, even from my tent in the so-called humanitarian area.

I bring my laptop, try to charge it with solar-powered systems

I have like four small solar powered panels and I charge my laptop with it for like four hours so I can get it fully charged.

Then I go to somewhere with decent internet, like one or two megabits.

I try to work from that place, finish my work, send it, then go back.

I needed to walk like seven kilometers a day.

Then I come back and do the daily chores from making fire to making food to getting to the markets, blah, blah, blah.

That sounds a very busy, full, tiring day.

Yes.

I wake up at five and finish those tasks by 9pm.

And as there's increasing talk of rebuilding Gaza, what are your hopes for what you might be able to do in the coming years?

My ambition is to build a stable career, a sustainable career, where I can work here online and internationally and not be limited by any form of conflict.

I really want to continue developing my esports career without the fear of emasculation.

So no, I can't work where bombs are dropped because it will appear in the background of my microphone that that's unprofessional.

It happened once and I hated myself because the building in front of me was bombed.

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