Fifteen months ago, write the Financial Times' cultural critic Peter Aspden, he was invited to Syria by Asma al-Assad, wife of the president, Bashar al-Assad, to discuss a major new cultural initiative.
Events, of course, interfered, but the whole thing gave him a great line.
"Just what is it about the wives of dictators, monarchs and absolutists that make them in a neat reversal of the chilling Nazi dictum, reach for culture whenever the hear the sound of a gun?"
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