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On an unseasonably mild day last August , a small group of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri 's closest political allies could tell from his flushed face and subdued manner that something awful had happened in the Syrian capital of Damascus , where he had been summoned to a meeting with President Bashar al-Assad .
 place of birth: Bashar al-Assad, Damascus
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: ethnicity, place lived, geographic distribution, company industry, country of administrative divisions, administrative division of country, location contains, person of company, profession, ethnicity of people, company shareholder among major shareholders, sports team of location, religion, neighborhood of, company major shareholders, place of death, nationality, children, company founders, company founded place, country of capital, company advisors, sports team location of teams, place of birth 
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 place of birth: Bashar al-Assad, Damascus