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Asma al-Assad: Syria's First Lady
Syria's first lady is fashionable, intelligent, a mother and charitable.
First Lady Alma al-Assad Is a Mother, Fashionable, Intelligent, Philanthropic
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma, at the Bristol hotel Dec. 11, 2010 in Paris. Asma al-Assad, the daughter of a Syrian cardiologist and from a prominent family near Damascus, spent most of her life in England.
In the late '90s, she started working at Deutsche Bank but eventually left and moved to Syria after marrying Bashar al-Assad in 2000. (MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images)
