Asma al-Assad as a hope for peace because she wears Louis Vuitton? Pah

It seems as though the obvious, apparently, needs to be repeated again. Bear with me, it’s painstaking for me too.

When Vogue infamously featured Asma al-Assad during the early period of the Syrian uprising in 2011, most level-headed folks were …

First Lady Dictators Are Not Sexy Headlines

Exactly a year ago on March 15^th, the official day of Syrian uprising, I wrote about the Vogue feature on Syrian first-lady Asma al-Assad, which glamorized the haute couture-clad co-dictator while painting a painful picture of a …

The Poverty of Marriage

The burdens of poverty affect most, if not all aspects, of social relations. Most prominently (and unsurprisingly), women carry the greatest burden of the social predicaments that arise from a dire lack of economic security.  Women in groups hit hardest …