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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #219 Syria: Rising from the rubble
Description: Can engineers help to build peace? Can the solutions engineers develop in places of conflict, contribute to the development of low carbon? They can. And Engineering Matters listeners can help with this important work.
Over the past decade, many of Syria’s urban areas have been ravaged by aerial bombardment and shelling by artillery. It is a land of lives lost and cities destroyed. But in the country’s northwest, an engineer is working among the rubble to establish an independent university that will allow internally displaced teenagers and post grads to continue their studies.Â
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