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14 unusual facts about Damascus University


Colette Khoury

Khoury graduated from Damascus University with a bachelor's degree in French literature and she received a diploma from the school of literature in Beirut.

Damascus University

Jamal Suliman - Syrian Actor and Theater Teacher - Awarded a B.A. in Theatrical Studies and Acting

Duraid Lahham - Syrian Actor, Author, Director and TV Presenter, Awarded a B.Sc.

Gerhard Schröder - former chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany, Awarded an Honorary Doctorate

Abbas al-Noury - Syrian Actor, Author, Director and TV Presenter, Awarded a B.A. in History

Dima Kandalaft

Kandalaft graduated with a degree of economics from Damascus University.

Ghassan Ibrahim

He was born in Syria in 1977, and studied at Damascus University where he completed his BSc in Economics and Postgraduate Degree in Finance.

Hind Rassam Culhane

She was also a popular teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Damascus University in Syria, where she taught courses on child development, adolescent disorders and health service delivery.

Hisham al-Ghazzi

Born in 1923, Al-Ghazzi attended and graduated from the Arab Institute of Law (currently the Faculty of Law of Damascus University).

Mahmud Sulayman al-Maghribi

Maghribi worked within the ministry of education in Qatar while studying Law at Damascus University before gaining his PhD in Petroleum law at George Washington University in the United States.

Mariana van Zeller

With London as her new base, she studied Arabic at Damascus University in Syria in order to better seek out stories in the Middle East.

Mohammad al Jililati

He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the Damascus University in 1967, and a PhD in economics and finance from the former Soviet Union in 1975.

Nawzad Jaadan

He was born in Masikan Syrian in 1984 in a poor family as the fourth from five children, his father was Jaadan Jaadan writer and Arabic teacher, He has Bachelor of Information in Damascus University.

Ziad Abuzayyad

Ziad Ali Khalil AbuZayyad is an attorney at Law who graduated from Damascus University in 1965.


Gyula Germanus

He accepted invitations from the Scientific Academy of Cairo, other universities in Alexandria, Cairo, Damascus, and eight Indian universities to give lectures about Islamic cultural history in English and Arabic.