Some journalists underestimated the threat of the brutal president, while his first lady was glamorised in a Vogue feature, writes Zoe Williams.
She was once seen as a positive influence on the Syrian president with her focus on NGO and charity work, but as civil war broke out in Syria her role turned ...
The former first lady was once seen as a symbol of female empowerment โ Syria's equivalent of Princess Diana. Now she's in exile in Russia.
Asma al-Assad, wife of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has three children with the ex-ruler having grown up with her own family in the UK.
Vogue's surprising profile of the former First Lady of Syria is likely to resurface in the minds of many following the collapse of the al-Assad family's ...
The London-born wife of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad is believed to have joined her husband and fled to Moscow.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Referred to as โA Rose in the Desertโ by Vogue in 2010, Asma al-Assad, the former Syria's First Lady, was once admired for her elegance ...
For years Asma Al Assad, 49, was the face of female liberation in the Middle East; with her successful career in banking and her secular British upbringing.
Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young and very chic - the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies.'
When Joan Juliet Buck agreed to interview Asma al-Assad for Vogue in 2010, she had no idea it would destroy her livelihood and end her long career with the ...