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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 …
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First Lady Dictators Are Not Sexy Headlines
Exactly a year ago on March 15th, 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 …
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Repression 2.0
Traditionally, Arab regimes have used a large repertoire of repressive means ranging from massive torture (as it was the case pre-occupation Irak, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and to a lesser extent Morocco and Jordan), to the complete control of the press,
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Dictatorships Are No Longer in Vogue
What does one of the world’s premier fashion and culture magazines have in common with one of the world’s most relentlessly brutal dictators?
A love for Asma al-Assad.
In the recent issue of Vogue, writer Joan Juliet Buck profiles …