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"Syria is known as the safest country in the Middle East, possibly because, as the State Department’s Web site says, “the Syrian government conducts intense physical and electronic surveillance of both Syrian citizens and foreign visitors.” It’s a secular country where women earn as much as men and the Muslim veil is forbidden in universities, a place without bombings, unrest, or kidnappings, but its shadow zones are deep and dark.

Asma Akhras was born in London in 1975, the eldest child and only daughter of a Syrian Harley Street cardiologist and his diplomat wife"

The woman under whose authority this piece was assigned, edited, and published was seriously considered by Barack Obama for the position of British ambassador.

http://gawker.com/asma-al-assad-a-rose-in-the-desert-1265002284