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Queen Noor (Arabic: الملكة نور) (born August 23, 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is the fourth wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan. She was born an American of Syrian, Swedish, Scottish, and English descent. She is the current president of the United World Colleges movement. Family and early lifeQueen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby. She is the daughter of Najeeb Halaby, a former CEO of Pan-American World Airways, one time head of the Federal Aviation Administration, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and his first wife, Doris Carlquist.She has a younger brother, Christian Halaby, a composer and guitarist, and a younger sister, Alexa Halaby (a University of Pennsylvania squash champion who was a bridesmaid at the 1986 wedding of Maria Owings Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Queen Noor's paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby, a Syrian immigrant, was an oil broker, according to 1920 census records. Merchant Stanley Marcus, however, recalled that in the mid-1920s, Halaby opened Halaby Galleries, a rug boutique and interior-decorating shop, at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas, and ran it with his Texas-born wife, Laura Wilkins (1889–1987, later Mrs. Urban B. Koen). Halaby died shortly afterward, and his estate was unable to continue the new enterprise.[1] EducationLisa Halaby was born, raised and educated in the United States; she attended National Cathedral School from Grade 4 through Grade 8, and then went on to Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She entered Princeton University with its first co-educational freshman class, and received a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning in 1974.She also attended The Chapin School in Manhattan. Affiliations and international activitiesQueen Noor is actively involved in a number of international organizations advancing global peace-building and conflict recovery, and advises the United Nations on these issues. She is president of the United World Colleges, Chair of the United Nations University International Leadership Academy, International Patron and Honorary Chair of Landmine Survivors Network, Advisor to Women Waging Peace, Seeds of Peace and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Patron of the World Conservation Union, trustee of the Aspen Institute, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund International, Refugees International, a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons and a Patron of the SOS Children's Villages - USA in Jordan[2].Marriage and childrenAn architect and urban planner, she met King Hussein while working in Jordan on the development of the Amman Intercontinental Airport. The couple married on June 15, 1978. In a New York Times article (May 19, 1978) about the couple's forthcoming wedding, a friend of the bride described her as "a darling, healthy, sunburned, tennis-playing, All-American girl, but she is very sophisticated. I can't see her marrying the average boy." Halaby converted to Islam, and before the marriage took place, her first name was changed from Lisa to Noor, an Arabic word meaning "light".Queen Noor and King Hussein had four children:
Life after HusseinIn the final months of King Hussein's life, Queen Noor reportedly wanted her son Prince Hamzah to be named heir to the throne but Abdullah became king instead and Hamzah became the heir presumptive. In 2004, however, Queen Noor was dealt a further blow when, in a surprise move, Prince Hamzah was stripped of his title as Jordan's next in line and it is expected that King Abdullah will eventually name his own son as heir instead. [3]Queen Noor had initially announced plans to continue living permanently in Jordan after the King's death, but now spends most of her time in Washington, D.C. from where she works on behalf of numerous international organizations and where she makes 70 to 100 speaking appearances annually [4]. Notable worksIn 2003, Queen Noor published a memoir, Leap of Faith, which became a bestseller.See alsoNotes and references
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| A trailblazer since joining Princeton University's first co-ed class in 1970 as Arab-American Lisa Halaby, she earned her degree in architecture and urban planning, and worked throughout the Middle East before her life took an unexpected turn: in 1978 she embraced the extraordinary opportunity to share the life of Jordan's King Hussein, becoming Queen Noor Al Hussein. And while she's part of the Jordanian monarchy, the former Lisa Halaby is also a D. |
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