He fled Syria’s war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

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

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