• University of Damascus (Arabic: جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, Jāmiʻatu Dimashq) is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus,...
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    Damascus (/dəˈmæskəs/ də-MASK-əs, UK also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest...
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  • The Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University (Arabic: كلية الطب البشري في جامعة دمشق) is the oldest university college in Syria, founded in 1903. Under...
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    Damascus steel (Arabic: فولاذ دمشقي) is the forged steel of the blades of swords smithed in the Near East from ingots of carbon steel imported from Southern...
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    the al-Assad family. Born and raised in Damascus, Bashar graduated from the medical school of Damascus University in 1988 and began to work as a doctor...
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    Mahmoud Abbas (category Damascus University alumni)
    graduated from the University of Damascus, where he studied law. Abbas later entered graduate studies at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where...
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    of Medicine at Damascus University. The General Authority of Pediatrics Hospital was established in the year 1978 in Damascus. It is considered a service...
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    2024, Israel conducted an airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, destroying the building housing its consular section. Sixteen people...
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    Bushra al-Assad (category Damascus University alumni)
    family. Bushra received her degree in pharmacy in 1982 from Damascus University. At university Bushra befriended Bouthaina Shaaban who is now member of the...
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    romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the largest and oldest...
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    This is a list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation in the world. Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the...
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  • This is a list of rulers of Damascus from ancient times to the present. General context: History of Damascus. Rezon I (c. 950 BC) Tabrimmon Ben-Hadad I...
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    Bassel al-Assad (category Damascus University alumni)
    Bassel was driving at 240 kilometers per hour (150 mph) through fog to Damascus International Airport for a privately chartered flight to Frankfurt, Germany...
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    Apollodorus of Damascus (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was an architect and engineer from Roman Syria, who flourished during the 2nd century...
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    The Damascus affair of 1840 refers to the arrest of several notable members of the Jewish community in Damascus on the accusation of murdering Father...
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    The Kingdom of Aram-Damascus (/ˈærəm dəˈmæskəs/; Syriac: ܐܪܡ-ܕܪܡܣܘܩ) was an Aramean polity that existed from the late-12th century BCE until 732 BCE, and...
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    Damascus Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة دمشق; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت شام, romanized: Eyālet-i Šām) was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the...
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    Amani Ballour (category Damascus University alumni)
    wanted to be an Engineer, so she took up Mechanical Engineering at Damascus University despite experiencing gossip from others and receiving opposition...
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    Uthman Taha (category Damascus University alumni)
    of Aleppo Governorate, Syria. Gaining a BA in Shari’ah from the University of Damascus, he also studied Arabic language, Islamic decoration arts, and painting...
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    John of Damascus (Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي, romanized: Yūḥana ad-Dimashqī; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός, romanized: Ioánnēs ho Damaskēnós, IPA: [ioˈanis o...
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  • Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (category Damascus University alumni)
    1963, Azzam enrolled in the Faculty of Sharia at the University of Damascus in Syria. While in Damascus, he met Islamic scholars and leaders including Shaykh...
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    Mohammad Rasoul Al–Kailani (category Damascus University alumni)
    in Law from Syrian University, Damascus, in 1956. He further specialized in Financial and Economic Sciences at the same university in the same year. Al-Kailani...
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  • Nicolaus of Damascus (Greek: Νικόλαος Δαμασκηνός, Nikolāos Damaskēnos; Latin: Nicolaus Damascenus) was a Greek historian and philosopher who lived during...
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    (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and the "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event...
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    Mohammed Rateb al-Nabulsi (category Damascus University alumni)
    professor at Damascus University. He was living in Syria but after the Syrian Revolution started in 2011, he went to Jordan. He was raised in Damascus and studied...
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    Dima Kandalaft (category Damascus University alumni)
    mother from Marjayoun. She graduated with a degree of economics from Damascus University. She pursued an acting career and studied at the Higher Institute...
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    Hassan Hassan (category Damascus University alumni)
    Bukamal for high school. In 2000, he moved to Damascus to study English literature at Damascus University. In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom, where...
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  • Mahmoud Ahmad Marei (category Damascus University alumni)
    party. Marei was born in Talfita, Rif Dimashq. He studied law at the Damascus University and graduated in 1993. He is former president of the Youth Office...
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  • Zein E. Obagi (category Damascus University alumni)
    the 1980s. Obagi grew up in Aleppo, Syria and graduated from the University of Damascus in 1972 with a degree in medicine. He then moved to the United States...
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  • Wahbah al-Zuhayli (category Damascus University alumni)
    Dair Atiah, north of Damascus, to a father who was a farmer by occupation. Zuhayli studied sharia in the University of Damascus for six years, graduating...
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