Early Life and Education
Ghazi Kanaan was born in 1942 in Bhamra, near Qardaha, the home town of former Syrian president Hafiz Asad. This region, centered on the coastal town of Lattakia, is in heartland Syria's Alawite minority, of which both men were part. Ghazi was a member of the Kalabiyya tribe and a distant relative of Bashar’s mother, Anisa Makhlouf. He graduated from the Homs Military Academy in 1965.
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