The Girl from Acton
How does a London-born, London-raised banker — ‘the girl from Acton’ — become the first lady of Assad’s Syria? This six-part series opens on Asma al-Assad’s early life in England, tracing the path from an ordinary British upbringing toward the centre of one of the century’s most brutal regimes. A gripping, unsettling study of image, complicity and reinvention.
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