# The Syrian Presidential Palace Strengthens its Concentration of Power: The Rift Makhlouf-Assad

**Category:** palace networks / Asma economic role / Makhlouf rift  
**Local extracted archive:** `../archived/extracted/eui-syrian-presidential-palace-makhlouf-assad.md`  
**Original URL:** https://hdl.handle.net/1814/67027

## Why it matters

This EUI policy brief is a compact source for the growth of Asma al-Assad’s economic role after 2011, her links to associates such as Muhannad al-Dabbagh and Tarif al-Akhras, Takamol/smart-card context, and the Assad clan’s post-2019 concentration of economic power against Rami Makhlouf.