# Asma al-Assad / AAA — official role and capacities

**Category:** role dossier / official capacity / institutional mapping  
**Main dossier:** `../../notes/research/2026-05-05-asma-official-role-and-capacities.md`  
**Created:** 2026-05-05

## Summary

This dossier maps Asma al-Assad’s formal, semi-formal, and institutionally attested roles:

- no explicit constitutional office found;
- state-styled “First Lady” role used by SANA/Presidency;
- palace-supported Office of the First Lady, attested by US Treasury/OFAC through Lina al-Kinayeh;
- chair/governing-board role over the Syria Trust for Development;
- development, humanitarian, welfare and public-diplomacy capacities;
- economic/political network role, distinguished from documented official facts and from allegations.

## Key local raw/extracted sources

- `../archived/raw/syria-constitution-2012-constitute.html`
- `../archived/raw/sana-asma-leukemia-2024.live.html`
- `../archived/raw/treasury-lina-kinayeh-asma-network-2020.live.html`
- `../archived/raw/ofac-recent-actions-2020-12-22-akhras-kinayeh-masouti.html`
- `../archived/raw/ofac-sanctions-search-asma-al-assad-29068.html`
- `../archived/raw/eu-council-regulation-2020-716-syria-sanctions.html`
- `../archived/extracted/eui-role-of-philanthropy-syrian-war.md`
- `../archived/extracted/eui-syrian-presidential-palace-makhlouf-assad.md`
- `../archived/extracted/asma-china-2023-source-cluster.md`
- `../archived/raw/springer-syrian-presidency-instagram-gender-2022.live.html`
- `../archived/raw/syrianobserver-syria-trust-renamed-2025.html`

Use the main dossier for the capacity matrix and confidence labels.