In all honesty, this comes off as very bad optics for Bashar and Asma. The BBC/al Jazeera knock on her was that she was Syria's version of Marie Antoinette: rich, westernized and out of touch w/ the common people who were suffering under her husband's tyrannical rule. This self-described investment banker w/ a posh accent and little black dress addresses a crowd of her swanky peers that they should pitch in w/ donations for some progressive feminist advancement of her people. In retrospect, we can say that idealistic appeal didn't bear fruit as the liberal West colluded w/ the Zionists and Islamists to overthrow her husband's regime.
she embodies the title "First Lady"
In all honesty, this comes off as very bad optics for Bashar and Asma. The BBC/al Jazeera knock on her was that she was Syria's version of Marie Antoinette: rich, westernized and out of touch w/ the common people who were suffering under her husband's tyrannical rule. This self-described investment banker w/ a posh accent and little black dress addresses a crowd of her swanky peers that they should pitch in w/ donations for some progressive feminist advancement of her people. In retrospect, we can say that idealistic appeal didn't bear fruit as the liberal West colluded w/ the Zionists and Islamists to overthrow her husband's regime.