Editing Ziad Jarrah (section)

== Early life and education ==
Ziad Samir al-Jarrah was born on 11 May 1975 in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]] to a wealthy and secular Muslim family. He was brought up in a working class quarter of the city, Tariq al-Jadida, and received his primary and secondary education from schools in that area. His father, Samir Jarrah, worked as a social service inspector for the [[Lebanese government]] and his mother taught at an elementary school.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Freedberg |first=Sydney |date=October 14, 2001 |title=The Making of a Terrorist // He Seemed Like Such a Nice Boy |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2001/10/14/the-making-of-a-terrorist-he-seemed-like-such-a-nice-boy/ |access-date= |website=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |language=en}}</ref> His parents were nominally [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] [[Muslim]], although they lived a [[secularism|secular]] lifestyle. In his childhood, he had always wanted to fly planes, but his family discouraged this. "I stopped him from being a pilot," his father told the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' a week after the attacks. "I only have one son and I was afraid that he would crash."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Marcus |title=A Student's Dreams Or a Terrorist's Plot? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000774372551721800 |access-date=November 28, 2018 |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |publisher=[[Dow Jones & Company]]|location=New York City|date=September 18, 2001}}</ref>

From 1995 to 1996, while Jarrah was still living in [[Yemen]], according to his family, somebody of the same name rented an apartment in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]]. The landlords claimed it was the same Jarrah as in the FBI photographs.<ref name="BostonGlobe">{{cite news|url=http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/268/nation/Hijack_suspect_lived_a_life_or_a_lie+.shtml |title=Hijack Suspect Lived a Life, or a Lie |last=Neuffer |first=Elizabeth |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |publisher=Boston Globe Partners L.P.|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=October 25, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010925140413/http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/268/nation/Hijack_suspect_lived_a_life_or_a_lie%2B.shtml |archive-date=September 25, 2001 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the spring of 1996, Jarrah moved to [[Germany]] with his cousin, Salim. They were there to take a [[Academic certificate|certificate]] course in [[German language|German]] at the [[University of Greifswald]], which was required of foreigners studying in Germany who do not speak the language. While sharing an apartment with his cousin, he reportedly attended [[disco]]s and beach parties, and his attendance at the [[mosque]] fell off. He met Aysel Şengün, a [[Germany|German]]-born woman of [[Turkey|Turkish]] ancestry studying [[dentistry]], and the two became good friends. They dated on and off for the remainder of his life and lived together briefly, which vexed his more religious friends.<ref>{{cite book|title=The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2004|page=163|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/books/review/20book.html|last1=Kakutani|first1=Michiko}}</ref>

In September 1997, Jarrah left Greifswald and instead began studying [[aerospace engineering]] at the [[Fachhochschule]] ([[Vocational university|University of Applied Sciences]]) in [[Hamburg]], while working at a [[Volkswagen]] paint shop in nearby [[Wolfsburg]]. While in Hamburg, he rented an apartment from Rosemarie Canel, who would paint a portrait of him that he would bring back as a gift for his mother that December.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/thepilot/story.html|title=The Story of Ziad Jarrah|website=[[CBC News]]|date=October 10, 2001|access-date=September 13, 2006}}</ref>

The ''[[9/11 Commission Report]]'' states that Jarrah was a member of the [[Hamburg cell]], along with [[Mohamed Atta]] and the others. He did not live with any of the others, however, and can be confirmed to have met with any of them in Hamburg only on a single occasion: that of [[Said Bahaji]]'s wedding at the al-Quds Mosque in October 1999.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news|first=Mike|last=Boettcher|url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/07/hamburg.wedding/|title=Video shows inside look at al Qaeda cell, authorities say|website=[[CNN]]|publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting Systems]]|location=Atlanta, Georgia|date=May 7, 2003|access-date=February 25, 2019}}</ref>