Asma al-Assad, Syria’s now-ousted first lady ... once demanding full editorial control over a controversial Vogue spread, according to sources. Anna Wintour’s magazine published a gushing ...

Assad: from private schoolgirl in Acton to being reportedly severely ill with leukaemia - She was once fawned over for her ...

Around the same time in 2011, Vogue magazine published a profile on Asma al-Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It was titled "A Rose in the Desert," and in the words of Joan ...

Asma al-Assad and her dictator husband fled to the ... A former investment banker, she was the subject of a breathless 2011 profile in Vogue magazine—since wiped from its website—that ...

Asma al-Assad, 49, was born in the UK to Syrian parents in 1975 and ... Mrs Assad was a subject of curiosity in western media ...

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Asma al-Assad, 49, was born and raised in London to ... she was both a figure of fascination and controversy. A 2011 Vogue profile controversially described her as “a rose in the desert ...

Asma al-Assad was raised in the UK and moved to Syria ... time seen as a women’s rights icon in the Middle East. In 2011, Vogue magazine called her “a rose in the desert” and described ...

Asma al-Assad was born to Syrian parents but grew up in London before moving to Syria in 2000, the same year Bashar al-Assad became president. Dubbed the "Rose in the Desert" by Vogue in 2011 ...