US Edition'The Road Is Long': Syrian Refugee Engineering a Fresh Start in Montreal
- Jad Albasha, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee who came to Quebec in 2016, is soon set to complete his graduate studies in civil engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.
- He fled Syria after bombings in January 2013 killed 78 people at Aleppo University, prompting his family to leave their only home and briefly stay in Lebanon before coming to Canada.
- Albasha started with no French, worked as a bag boy at a grocery store, then specialized in hydroelectric dams at AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. While mentoring others.
- Maud Cohen, president of Polytechnique Montréal, emphasized that Quebec requires an increased influx of engineers to address challenges posed by its aging population and shrinking workforce, as highlighted by Albasha’s example.
- Despite Quebec’s December 2024 law capping international student applications to reduce immigration, Albasha’s story symbolizes perseverance and successful integration in the province.
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When Jad Albasha arrived in Quebec in 2016, at the age of 21, fleeing his war-torn native Syria, he landed in a snowy universe where French was spoken, a language of which he did not understand a single word.
Syrian refugee engineering a fresh start in Montreal
When Jad Albasha arrived in Quebec in 2016 as a 21-year-old fleeing his war-torn home of Syria, he landed in a snow-covered world that spoke French, a language in which he did not understand a single word. But now it rolls off the tongue as if Albasha has lived here all of his life. When he graduate...
The Peterborough Examiner
‘The road is long’: Syrian refugee engineering a fresh start in Montreal
MONTREAL - When Jad Albasha arrived in Quebec in 2016 as a 21-year-old fleeing his war-torn home of Syria, he landed in a snow-covered world that spoke French, a language in which he did not understand a single word.
Winnipeg Free Press
'The road is long': Syrian refugee engineering a fresh start in Montreal
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
MONTREAL — When Jad Albasha arrived in Quebec in 2016, at the age of 21, fleeing his war-torn native Syria, he landed in a snowy world where French was spoken, a language of which he did not understand a single word. But today, one might think that he lived here all his life. His graduation as a master's degree in civil engineering at Polytechnique Montréal on Saturday will mark a new stage that bears witness to all the way he has travelled. He …
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