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Meet Asma al-Assad: the former first lady went from being Syria’s ‘Princess Diana’ to ‘Lady Macbeth’ after supporting her husband’s regime and spending lavishly – but what did Anna ...
What must Asma al-Assad be thinking right now? Bright, beautiful and British-born, she could be living an affluent life in England, with friends, family and a fine career, had she not sold her ...
Despot Bashar al-Assad and his British-born wife, dubbed “the First Lady of Hell,” enjoy a lavish lifestyle while children are gassed to death on the streets of Syria. The Syrian tyrant and ...
Asma al-Assad “wanted editorial control over everything — and she got it,” a source said of Syria’s ousted first lady and her cringeworthy Vogue story.
NPR's Scott Simons asks Economist correspondent Nicolas Pelham about Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, and how she has profited during the decade-long conflict in her country.
The leading fashion magazine talks through its rationale for running a flattering story on the wife of anti-American autocrat Bashar al-Assad "Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic--the ...