schools in england. she worked for two investment banks after graduating, closed lucrative deals and since marrying bashar al-assad her knack for showing her sense of style led to brush back. >> last year some private hacked e-mails between the assads and their inner circle were released and obtained by cnn, the guardian and other outlets. the e-mails revealed at one point as the country was being torn apart by civil war, asma al-assad ordered $16,000 worth of candlesticks, tables and chandeliers from paris. >> in one e-mail she boasted that she was the, quote, real dictator in her marriage. i asked tabler what may be going through her mind now. >> i think she is torn and made her decision. the fact is that she has made her life around the assad regime itself and she has i think divided person and very much like her husband, and between wanting to reform and carry out good works in the country and