where did bashar al assad study?
University of Damascus
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 After graduating from high school and finishing college entrance exam requirements , Ijaz was admitted to Government College in Lahore . There , he majored in physics and graduated with a B.Sc. in 1957 . He continued advanced studies under the tutelage of Prof. Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry , widely considered a pioneer in Pakistani experimental physics , until 1959 when he met Razia Begum Nazir . They later married and emigrated to the United States in 1960 . 

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 Once selected , Mihdhar and Hazmi were sent to the Mes Aynak training camp in Afghanistan . In late 1999 , Hazmi , Attash and Yemeni went to Karachi , Pakistan to see Mohammed , who instructed them on Western culture and travel ; however , Mihdhar did not go to Karachi , instead returning to Yemen . He was known as Sinaan during the preparations . 

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 Yaqub ibn Killis , a polymath , jurist and the first official vizier of the Fatimids , made al @-@ Azhar a key center for instruction in Islamic law in 988 . The following year , 45 scholars were hired to give lessons , laying the foundation for what would become the leading university in the Muslim world . 

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 As a young man , Ahmed Zayat learned to ride horses at the local country club . Zayat competed in show jumping during his early teens , winning national titles as a child in the under @-@ 12 and under @-@ 14 age divisions . He moved to the United States at the age of 18 , and earned an undergraduate degree from Yeshiva University . He obtained a master 's degree in public health administration from Boston University . Though the Zayat Stables , LLC website once stated that Zayat attended Harvard University , he did not . After graduation , he worked for Zev Wolfson , a New York City commercial real estate developer and investor . Zayat described Wolfson as " the toughest guy I ever worked for ... such a perfectionist . A great negotiator . " 

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 He would later say that , in retrospect , his parents ' decision to send him so far from the Middle East was much influenced by " the prospects of deracinated people , like us , being so uncertain that it would be best to send me as far away as possible " . The realities of a peripatetic life — of interwoven cultures , of feeling out of place , and of being far from home — affected the schoolboy Said to the degree that , in adult life , the themes of dissonance continually arose in the academic , political , and intellectual works wrote . Said matured as an intellectual — a polyglot young man , fluent in English , French and Arabic , earning his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Princeton University in 1957 and 1960 respectively , followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature from Harvard University in 1964 . Despite his many intellectual achievements , Said 's battle with his identity as it related to language ( Arabic and English specifically ) continued throughout his adult life . He discusses the battle with language in both Out of Place ( 1999 ) and Reflections on Exile ( 2002 ) by it describing as something he had to carry with him throughout his life and career . Many of his peers also examined this particular aspect of his identity as intellectual porter ( of language , briefcases , among other things ) . 
