#asmaalassad #assad #syria As the world watches Syria and joins in celebrating the end of one of the most brutal dictatorships in modern history—the Assad family's regime—I find myself drawn to one lingering question: who is the woman behind the infamous dictator? Once hailed by Vogue as a "rose in the desert," is she truly the elegant, compassionate figure the world was led to believe? Or is she something far darker—a modern-day Marie Antoinette, complicit in her husband's reign of terror, and potentially even a war criminal?
