Damascus | Syria’s new rulers have appointed a woman to run the country’s central bank as Western governments closely watch how the Islamist rebels who toppled the Assad regime treat women and Syria’s many religious and ethnic minorities.
Maysaa Sabrine, who served as first deputy governor at the central bank under the fallen regime, was tapped to lead the institution, the first woman to do so in its more than 70-year history, a senior Syrian official said on Monday (Tuesday AEDT).
