Complex sentence: He grew up in a well-known Sunni land-owning family from Damascus and was schooled in Beirut, Lebanon earning the B.A. in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut (1957).
Split into simpler sentences: He grew up in a well-known Sunni land-owning family from Damascus. Al-Azm was schooled in Beirut, Lebanon earning the B.A. in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut (1957).