Asma al-Assad

February 14, 2023 | David Adesnik |

Biden’s Earthquake Relief Policy Opens Door Wide to Syria Sanctions Evasion

The Treasury Department issued a new general license on Thursday evening that authorizes broad new categories of individuals and organizations that can send aid to Syria, provided its purpose is earthquake...

November 18, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Meet Xi and Putin’s Hired Gun Inside the UN

If your dictatorship is facing U.S. or EU sanctions, you can count on Alena Douhan to announce that Western governments are the real human rights violators.

June 17, 2020 | David Adesnik, Toby Dershowitz

Sanctions Against Syria Will Help, Not Harm, Civilians

The Caesar Act is an overdue effort to starve the Assad regime of the resources that fuel its atrocities.

February 9, 2017 | Tony Badran |

Assad’s Fundraiser at the World Bank

For all the controversy surrounding it, there was one silver lining to President Trump’s now suspended ...

December 27, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Assad Is So Out of Vogue

But the spring season in Syria is likely to be ghastly as well.

August 1, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Syria, Vogue, and the Apologia of Joan Juliet Buck

It’s now 17 months since Vogue published its cover-story paean to the first lady of Syria, “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert.” Readers were treated to a profile of A...

February 12, 2012 | |

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In the fall of 2007 Israel reportedly hacked into Syria’s air defense systems and disabled them, as a prelude to bombing a nuclear facility in the Syrian desert. This vaunted cyber exploit,...

July 21, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

The Great Alawite Hope

Belief in Bashar al-Assad was always misplaced. Now it’s time for change.

March 31, 2011 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media |

What Should Asma al-Assad Wear to the Syrian Revolution?

Long ago and far away, when the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos fell in the Philippines, the dictator’s wife, Imelda, became an object of global ridicule for her extravagant wardrobe &mdas...

March 25, 2011 | |

Syria’s Assad No Longer in Vogue

It was slow in coming, but the Arab revolutionary wave of 2011 has reached Syria. Its arrival has forced a reassessment of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s domestic legitimacy and prospects for...

March 9, 2010 | |

Who Is Leading On US-Mideast Policy?

In the past week, a new element was introduced into the unfolding and cacophonous saga of the Obama administration’s new Syria policy, namely the appearance of Senator John Kerry....