A University of Wisconsin summer intern has traded a comfortable life and advanced study abroad for Beirut and the burden of rebuilding a country ravaged by war.
When Lebanese student Samer Sobh traveled to Madison July 9 to participate in the UW College of Engineering summer research internship program, he left behind a country poised to capitalize on a booming tourist season.
He returned three months later to a land seeded with cluster bombs and its economy in ruins.