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New university: Hopes to give refugees educational wings
BERLIN — Hamed Shurbaji is tired of waiting. The broad-shouldered 24-year-old travelled for months from Syria to Germany to finish his bachelor’s degree. When he finally arrived in Berlin, German authorities told him to wait.“Finishing my French literature degree is my dream,” said Shurbaji, a Syrian who fled his country’s civil war in May 2013, a year shy of completing his degree at the University of Damascus. “It’s frustrating to just sit around. I don’t want to waste more time.”