Al Zawahiri

Egyptian Islamist militant leader

Al Zawahiri is an Egyptian Islamist militant leader and physician. He was born in 1951 in Cairo, Egypt, and studied medicine at Cairo University. Zawahiri became involved in Islamist politics in the 1970s and was a key figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He was designated as a terrorist by the US government in 1999 and has been the leader of al-Qaeda since the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. Zawahiri has been bas...