Zed Al Aas dreams of someday being awarded a Nobel Prize. If there was one for coping with bureaucracy, he would have already won it. Al Aas left his native Syria at the outset of the civil war there. He completed the equivalent of high school in Lebanon. He eventually made his way here, to Germany, two years ago. But to study in his preferred major, bioinformatics, he is determined to go to a university in the United States, which has the top programs in the field.

October 25, 2016 ・ From Atlantic