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==Asma al-Assad Controversy==

In the March 2011 issue of ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', Buck published a profile of [[Asma al-Assad]], wife of Syrian President [[Bashar al-Assad]], which described her as "glamorous, young and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies."<ref name=WPFarhi>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vogue-profile-on-assads-wife-disappears/2012/04/25/gIQAgMWthT_story.html|work=The Washington Post|first=Paul|last=Farhi|title=Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web|date=2012-04-26}}</ref> The piece caused a furor within foreign policy circles,<ref name=WPFarhi/> and publications and web sites including ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[The Atlantic]]'' attacked it as an ill-timed "[[puff piece]]" that ignored human rights abuses under Syria's [[Ba'athist]] regime.<ref name=WSJWeissF>{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Bari|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704506004576174623822364258.html|title=Weiss and Feith: The Dictator's Wife Wears Louboutins - WSJ.com|publisher=Online.wsj.com|date=2011-03-07|accessdate=2012-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/vogue-defends-profile-of-syrian-first-lady/71764/|title=Vogue Defends Profile of Syrian First Lady - Max Fisher - International|publisher=The Atlantic|date=2012-04-06|accessdate=2012-04-12}}</ref> In May 2011 the article was removed from ''Vogue's'' website.<ref name=WPFarhi/> Buck later published a wide-ranging article on the assignment in ''[[Daily Beast Newsweek|Newsweek]]'' that described, among other things, how it had "destroyed her livelihood", resulting in her long-standing contract with ''Vogue'' not being renewed.<ref name=DB>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/joan-juliet-buck-my-vogue-interview-with-syria-s-first-lady.html</ref> [[Michael Totten]] responded in [[World Affairs]], that he although Assad was then not a war criminal when Buck wrote her piece, he was a totalitarian dictator. His state was a sponsor of radical Islamist terrorist organizations. That this information was well known and she had no excuse for writing such an article.<ref>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blogs/michael-j-totten</ref> Buck has since been vocal on [[Twitter]] about developments in Syria.<ref name=Twitter>{{cite news|url=https://twitter.com/JoanJulietBuck|first=Joan|last=Juliet Buck|publisher=Twitter|accessdate=2012-08-10}}</ref><ref name=DB/><ref name="WWDmaza"/>.

==Personal life==