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From War to Opportunity: Syrian-Armenian AUA Student Discusses Journey
‘The war in Syria disrupted my life, but AUA is giving me a better future.’
–Syrian Armenian Gasia Atashian Says
YEREVAN—It is tragic to lose one’s home and to have one’s dreams and aspirations cut short. This is what fate had in store for 20-year-old Syrian Armenian Gasia Atashian, an undergraduate student at the American University of Armenia (AUA). But this was her fate only up to December 2013, when Atashian and most of her family escaped their war-torn hometown of Aleppo, Syri
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{..excels academically as a sophomore in AUA’s Department of Computational Sciences.}
Wow.
Go Ms. Atashian.
a young woman making the nation proud.
A wonderful story of finding happiness out of a very tragic situation. She will hopefully become an educator to the next generation of Armenians in her field of study. We definitely need more Armenian women in the Information Technology field.