Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi is a Syrian religious leader and Islamic scholar. He has opposed both Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The University of Damascus is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus, with campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 as the Syrian University through the merger of the Medical School and the Institute of Law. It adopted its current name after the founding of the University of Aleppo in 1958.