1974 : (EGYPT : ZAWHIRI OBTAINS MEDICAL DEGREE) He obtained his degree in 1974 and practiced medicine for several years.
His profession, however, was not his calling. By the late 1970s, he was back full-time in the Islamist revolution business agitating against the Egypt-Israel peace treaty (concluded in 1979). -——— “Islamism, fascism and terrorism (Part 4),” By Marc Erikson, Asia Times, 5 December 2002
He shoulda stayed in medicine. Assad was in med school too, but when his brother died he succeded his father as president of Syria.