Lisa najeeb halaby biography of abraham

Queen Noor of Jordan was guest of honor at a benefit dinner last week for the Versailles-Giverny Foundation at the Carlyle Hotel. Guests began their evening in a receiving line, at the end of which was the prize: a chat with the queen and a warm welcome from the evening’s hostess, Barbara de Portago, and the foundation’s benefactor, Gillian Spreckels Fuller. Mrs. de Portago’s mother, Florence Van der Kemp, was also a hostess at the event.

During a short speech, the queen spoke about the importance of the foundation’s preservation work, comparing Versailles to Jordan’s Petra. Both, she said, are “combinations of nature and manmade design” that appear on Unesco’s World Heritage List of sites requiring preservation.

The former Lisa Najeeb Halaby, an American native, said her late husband, King Hussein, took “an enormous leap of faith” when he married her in 1978. She was a member of Princeton University’s first coeducational freshman class and had dreamed of entering the Peace Corps before she met the king.

Queen Noor said her husband “believed that Jerusalem should ultimately be a symbol of peace, open and available to all children of Abraham.” She spoke hopefully about opportunities for peace in the Middle East.

“The so-called clash of civilizations is

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Hussein of Jordan

King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999

"King Hussein" redirects here. Not to be confused with Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz. For his grandson, see Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan.

Hussein bin Talal (Arabic: الحسين بن طلال, romanized: Al-Ḥusayn bin Ṭalāl; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999. Hussein was born in Amman as the eldest child of Talal bin Abdullah and Zein Al-Sharaf.

Hussein was born in Amman as the eldest child of Talal bin Abdullah and Zein Al-Sharaf. Talal was at that time the heir to his own father, King Abdullah I. Hussein began his schooling in Amman, continuing his education abroad. After Talal became king in 1951, Hussein was named heir apparent. The Jordanian Parliament forced Talal to abdicate a year later due to his illness, and a regency council was appointed until Hussein came of age. He was enthroned at the age of 17 on 2 May 1953. Hussein was married four separate times and fathered eleven children.

Hussein, a constitutional monarch, started his rule by allowing the formation of the only democratically elected government in Jordan's history in 1956, which he forced to resign a few months later, declaring martial law and banning political parties. Under Husse

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