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Bushra al-Assad

1960 - Today

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Bushra al-Assad (Arabic: بُشْرَى ٱلْأَسَدِ, romanized: Bušrā al-ʾAsad; born 24 October 1960) is the first child and only daughter of Hafez al-Assad, who was the president of Syria from 1971 to 2000. She is the sister of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. She is the widow of Assef Shawkat, the deputy chief of staff of the Syrian Armed Forces and former head of the Syrian Military Intelligence, who was killed in the 18 July 2012 Damascus bombing, responsibility for which was claimed by a coalition of Syrian opposition rebel groups. As a result of the Syrian Civil War, in March 2012 she was placed on a list of Syrian government figures who were subject to European Union economic sanctions and travel bans. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bushra al-Assad is the 6,477th most popular politician (up from 14,988th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Syria (up from 167th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Syrian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bushra al-Assad ranks 6,477 out of 19,576. Before her are Emperor Kazan, Gallus Anonymus, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Patriarch Filaret of Moscow, Sabium, and William II, Duke of Bavaria. After her are Michael of Chernigov, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Gundemar, Elpidio Quirino, and Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Bushra al-Assad ranks 73. Before her are Gjorge Ivanov, Željko Obradović, Barham Salih, Steve Vai, Fayez al-Sarraj, and Neil Gaiman. After her are Kim Wilde, Naoki Urasawa, Hirohiko Araki, Walter Zenga, Gia Carangi, and Jeremy Clarkson.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Bushra al-Assad ranks 95 out of 210. Before her are Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Najah al-Attar (1933), Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926), As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1163), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), and Husni al-Za'im (1897). After her are Ghassan Massoud (1958), Hussein Arnous (1953), Jurji Zaydan (1861), Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), Sergius I of Constantinople (565), and Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan (1934).

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Among POLITICIANS In Syria

Among politicians born in Syria, Bushra al-Assad ranks 51. Before her are Nazim al-Qudsi (1906), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Najah al-Attar (1933), Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926), As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1163), and Husni al-Za'im (1897). After her are Hussein Arnous (1953), Sergius I of Constantinople (565), Vaballathus (266), Muhammad Naji al-Otari (1944), Soraya Tarzi (1899), and Dawoud Rajiha (1947).

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