If you look at how he got radicalized it happened in the egyptian prisons when he was one of hundreds that were rounded up and tortured after the murder of Sadat.
The common thread is the teachings of Sayyid Qutb who was practically the founder of the radical Islamic movement. His book Milestones was heavily read and borrowed upon by Zawahiri and Bin Laden.
However Zawahiri was born into a family that had a radical uncle that was part of the Muslim Brotherhood in its violent phases and he said that he wanted to be a jihadist like his uncle from a young age.
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