What happened in Syria since it stopped being a "Breaking News" hot topic? How are the Syrian people surviving post civil war living conditions? Is Assad still at large? And why does it matter?

Speaker, Eyad Said, came to Louisiana from Syria in August 2012 as a graduate student. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Louisiana State in 2018. A husband and a father of two, they all moved to Cedar Rapids, where he joined Mount Mercy University as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. He is now a Software Engineer at Collins Aerospace in Cedar Rapids.

Part of the Humanities Iowa - Global Connections Across Iowa '23-'24 Program Series.

Sponsored by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, City of Iowa City Channel 4, and the Iowa City Public Library.