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14. Asma al-Assad

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 11:45 AM

Feb 2012

As her president husband’s closest confidante, it is Asma al-Assad who is most likely to lead him towards reform and help stave off the type of revolution that has erupted in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

So who is the woman U.S. Vogue recently described as ‘A rose in the desert’?

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373064/Syria-protests-Could-Asma-Al-Assad-doctors-daughter-Acton-stop-bloodshed.html#ixzz1lu61Uai7

Yes, but people generally hope for the best, it is often the only things that keeps them going.

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