Mohammad Marwan Arafat is a Syrian

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 Football figure well known for being the first Arabic and Asian

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 football referee to be a linesman in a 3rd place Olympic

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 game match (Moscow

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 1980). He was the head of the Syrian football association 3 times, and lead the Syrian U-21 team to win the Asian title in Indonesia

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 1994.

Education

Marwan Arafat finished his primary and secondary

Secondary school

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 study in the schools of Damascus

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 to continue his studies in Geography

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 department of the university of Damascus

University of Damascus

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. He then had a Diploma

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 and Magister

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 in Education

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 from the university of Damascus, and later on had his Doctorate

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 of education from the United States

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.

Personal life

Born and raised in the city of Damascus in the district of Rukin Al-Dien, Dr. Marwan Arafat is married to Afaf Al-Hibri and has 4 children: Waheed (lawyer

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), Hanadi (Sport

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 teacher and special Olympics trainer), Waseem (Urologist in Germany

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) and Waddah (Specializing in Internal Medicine

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in the United states).