Despite the refugee life, Syrian students achieve first places in their university majors in Jordan

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study and excel despite asylum, loss of loved ones and difficult living conditions. They accept life with love and pleasure. They aspire to complete university studies for masters and doctorate degrees, but their greatest hope is that the war in Syria will end, and they will return to their homes in safety and stability.

Each of the Syrian students studying in Jordanian universities has his own story, how did he study?

Where does he manage his life?

Where do you work until you graduate?

How did his professors and fellow students embrace him in universities?

Al Jazeera Net visited a number of Syrian students who excelled and advanced over their colleagues and obtained first places in their university majors, and these meetings were held.

Abdul Rahman Zain Al Abidin

In a modest rented house in Jerash, the 26-year-old student, Abdul Rahman Zain al-Abidin, managed to get first place in journalism and media by graduating from Jordan's Yarmouk University, after being late for five years from studying, due to difficult financial conditions, he tells Al Jazeera Net.

Zine El Abidine obtained his baccalaureate in Syria in 2012, "but the circumstances of the Syrian revolution forced us to seek refuge in Jordan, after my brothers Ammar and Muhammad were martyred and my father suffered burns that forced us to leave our home in the Al-Asali neighborhood of Damascus."

He describes the university study as “beautiful” and describes his university professors and fellow students as “very cooperative.” He started the study in 2017 two months late due to the delay of the scholarship he studied at his expense, but was able to catch up with the students and progress on them, until Zine El Abidine became a destination for students in their press consultations. And editorial and research, according to his speech.

The first student, Abd al-Rahman Zain al-Abidin, majoring in journalism and media from Yarmouk University of Jordan (Al-Jazeera)

Hanan Salamat

North in the city of Irbid, the Syrian student Hanan Al-Salamat (21 years) got first place in the Arabic language from Irbid National University. She studied in the morning at the university, and taught male and female students at night to secure her university fees.

Hanan and her family sought refuge in Jordan in 2013 after their house was destroyed. She tells Al Jazeera Net, "The war destroyed everything we had. My sisters migrated to Lebanon and European countries, while my mother and father took refuge in Jordan, and for 9 years we have been living in safety and stability."

She added, "After I passed the high school exams, I decided to study at university, but the financial circumstances did not allow me, and I did not get a scholarship from international organizations, so I started private tutoring for students so that I could secure the costs of my studies, which exceeded 6,000 Jordanian dinars (about $8,460).

Al-Salamat aspires to complete her university studies and reach a doctorate, and is motivated by her love for the Arabic language, and the cooperation of her teachers and students with her at the university. ".

Syrian Hanan Al-Salamat won first place in the Arabic language from Irbid National University (Al-Jazeera)

Zia Al Mahamid

Mechanical engineering graduate student Diaa Al-Mahamid, 23, dedicated his graduation project to developing a robotic hand design that is made using 3D printing technology.

He added that his project aims to produce advanced robotic prosthetic hands at a low price suitable for all patients, and he has built a practical model for this hand to prove its efficiency and ability to perform various complex tasks, and he hopes in the future to provide it with advanced sensors to make it suitable for use more easily and easily.

Al-Mahamid, 23, won first place in his class in mechanical engineering from Zarqa Private University. He studied at the expense of a scholarship provided by an international organization, and he would not have been able to study without this scholarship.

During his studies, he worked in a building materials store to secure the requirements of his university studies. His father and older brother were martyred in Daraa in 2012, forcing him and his remaining family to seek refuge in Jordan in 2013, and throughout his studies, Mahamid told Al Jazeera Net, "I did not feel that I was a refugee."

Dia Al-Mahamid dedicated his graduation project to developing the design of a robotic hand made using 3D printing technology (Al-Jazeera)

Asim Hazzy

The Syrian student, Assem Hazini, was able, after a 6-year study, to obtain the second place in human medicine at the University of Jordan, with a degree of excellence. During the years of study, he suffered from many difficulties, not the least of which was the death of his father in the first semester of his studies, but he insisted on success and excellence.

Hazini aspires to complete his university requirements in the excellence and specialization programs, but they will be outside Jordan, as he seeks to obtain a scholarship in a European country or the United States, given the high costs of accommodation in government and private hospitals inside Jordan for Syrian refugees.

Assem Hazini won second place in human medicine at the University of Jordan (Al-Jazeera)

In addition to these, the student Omran Al-Naasan won the first place in energy engineering, the student Fatima Al-Hariri got the first place in the medical analysis, and the student Hossam Al-Khader won the first place in the civil engineering, all of whom graduated from Zarqa National University.