Fourteen-year-old Ahmad loves math. Partially because of this passion and partially because of the war that shattered the architecture of his childhood city of Damascus, he aspires to become an engineer and rebuild Syria, his home.
“I miss everything about Syria,” Ahmad said in September when A World at School visited him in Lebanon, where his family lives as refugees. “I miss going to the mosque on Fridays, I miss going to play and swim in the river.”