Assads pictured packing food aid after UN wives attack Syrian first lady in YouTube video
President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have appeared on state TV packing food aid just hours after the Syrian first lady’s lavish lifestyle was targeted in an online appeal to “stop your husband.”
In an apparent effort to burnish the image of a first couple derided for ordering luxury goods on the Internet while their country burns, state television broadcast pictures on Wednesday of the Assads receiving a rapturous welcome at al-Fahya stadium in Damascus.
That Vogue article I read about the Syrian first family was probably the most misleading, rose-tinted piece of...