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Asma al-Assad
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First Lady of Syrian Arab Republic (2000-2024)
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Asma al-Assad, born in 1975 in Acton, is a financial analyst and the First Lady of Syria. She holds citizenship in Syria, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Al-Assad is a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region and practices Sunni Islam. She received her education at King's College London and speaks Arabic and English.
She is married to Bashar al-Assad and is the mother of Hafez Bashar al-Assad. Her residences include London, Damascus, and Moscow. Al-Assad has received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. She has been diagnosed with breast cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and COVID-19.
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 14,095x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,224x
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Quotes
- “The President is the President of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the First Lady supports him in that role."”
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Key facts
- President
- Bashar al-Assad
- Preceded by
- Anisa Makhlouf
- Succeeded by
- Latifa al-Droubi
- Born
- Asma Fawaz Akhras , ( 1975-08-11 ) 11 August 1975 (age 50) , London , England
- Spouse
- Bashar al-Assad ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2000 )
- Children
- 3, including Hafez
- Parents
- Fawaz Akhras (father) Sahar Otri (mother)
- Education
- King's College London ( BSc )
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Encyclopedic overview
Asma Fawaz al-Assad (Arabic: أسماء فواز الأسد; née Akhras; born 11 August 1975) is a British-born Syrian economist who served as the first lady of Syria from 2000 to 2024 as the wife of Bashar al-Assad. She became first lady when she married al-Assad on 13 December 2000, shortly after he became president.
Asma Fawaz Akhras graduated from King's College London in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and French literature. She had a career in investment banking and was planning to begin an MBA at Harvard University when she married Bashar al-Assad in December 2000. She resigned from her job in investment banking following the wedding and remained in Syria, where their three children were born. As first lady, she played a major role in supporting government organisations involved with social and economic development as part of a reform initiative halted due to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asma al-Assad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.