Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria’s civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it. Abdulwahab Omira
Abdulwahab Omira
DAMASCUS, Syria — Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria’s civil war with his family as a teenager, shortly after he was freed from prison, having witnessed terrible abuses by the former regime.
Now a U.S. citizen, he recently returned to Syria