First lady of Syria
Asma al-Assad’s clothes are a problem for the hawkish elements of the western media: she doesn’t dress in the manner of a dolled-up dictator’s wife, or the veiled wives of Iran’s ayatollahs. She wears jeans in public, and chooses chunky strings of natural stones and abstract silver necklaces over diamond tiaras or gold parures. As Syria makes tentative overtures towards the west, a familiar-looking Arab first lady might do more for her country’s image than most political pundits could comprehend.
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