Jordan queen noor smoking salmon
Queen noor of jordan...
AFTER 20 YEARS AS queen of Jordan, she still cannot speak Arabic fluently.
Jordan queen noor smoking salmon
She is more widely admired in the jet-set realms of fashion and society than among the Palestinian exiles and Bedouin tribesmen who inhabit her husband's dusty kingdom. Born in America and converted to Islam only on the eve of her marriage, she is known to some of her disgruntled stepchildren as the king's ""CIA wife.'' At 47, Queen Noor al-Hussein--a.k.a.
Lisa Halaby, Princeton class of 1975--still enjoys the support of the only person who really matters in Jordan. But whenever her husband dies, she will be left almost friendless in her adopted land.
She seemed a bit clueless when she arrived in Amman in the late 1970s with a degree in architecture and urban planning.
The daughter of Najeeb Halaby, former chairman of Pan American World Airways, she got a planning job with Royal Jordanian Airlines and lived for a while in the InterContinental Hotel. Employees remember how she hung out in cutoffs and occasion