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This man's wife was the subject of a highly criticized Vogue article titled "A Rose in the Desert." The Houla massacre was carried out by this man's forces, which include the "outsourced" Shabiha, who allegedly beat Ali Farzat for his cartoons of this man. Like his father Hafez, he is a member of the Alawite sect of Shia Islam as well as the ruling (*) Ba'ath party. Lakhdar Brahimi and Kofi Annan have served as UN envoys to this leader's country. Forces of this man engaged in the shelling of Homs against an opposition also fighting in cities like Aleppo and Damascus. For 10 points, an insurgency has been taking place against the government of what President of Syria?
This man's wife was the subject of a highly criticized Vogue article titled "A Rose in the Desert.
Bashar al-Assad (prompt on just Assad before "Hafez" is read; accept afterwards)