Asma Al-Assad: How Western Media turned “A Rose in the Desert” into “A Cheerleader for Evil”
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By Sarah Abed | The Rabbit Hole
In early March 2011, right before the carefully calculated and planned imposed war and invasion in Syria, Vogue Magazinepublished a surprisingly positive article titled: Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert.
“Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. Her style is not the couture-and-bling dazzle of Middle Eastern power but a deliberate lack of adornment. She’s a rare combination: a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement. Paris Match calls her “the element of light in a country full of shadow zones.” “She is the first lady of Syria”.
The article gave readers an inside view of what life was like for the Assad’s In Syria. It didn’t exaggerate,...