Bar status:
Licensed to practice in Syria, 1993

Education:

• Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA.
  LL.M. in American Law, May 2002

• University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK
  LL.M. in International Commercial Law, September 2001, Honors – Distinction
  Dissertation: Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards Under the New York Convention of 1958. Merit based scholarship of the British Council in Damascus, Syria

• Faculty of Law, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria
  Postgraduate diploma in public law, March 1992, Honors - jaied jidan (equivalent to summa cum laude)
  Recipient and participant in the Scholarship of the International Institute of Human Rights founded by René Cassin Strasbourg – France- 1991

• Faculty of Law, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria
  LL.B.(equivalent to law degree), March 1990

Professional affiliations:

• Syrian Bar Association

• Participated in 1999 in a training session for lawyers and judges in Beirut Lebanon under the title 'The Independence of the Judiciary' organized by the International Center for the Independence of Lawyers and Judges, Geneva- Switzerland in co-operation with the Lebanese Bar Association and the Egyptian Center for the Independence of Lawyers and Judges

• Recipient and participant in the Scholarship of the Arab Institute for Human Rights, 1996 Hamamat, Tunisia as the representative of the Syrian Bar Association.

• Lecturer at the lawyer training session “Lawyers for the new millennium” held in Damascus in October 2003, which was organized by the Law Society of England and Wales and fully funded by the European Union.

Languages:
Native Arabic, fluent in English, French, and conversational German (Zertificat Deutsch als Fremdsprache)