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Queen Noor (Arabic: الملكة نور) (born August 23, 1951) is the fourth wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan. She was born an American of Arab, Swedish, Scottish, and English descent.
Family
Queen Noor was born Elizabeth Najeeb Halaby (but went by the name Lisa Halaby), a 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). She was born in Washington, D.C..
Queen Noor's paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby, a Syrian immigrant of Lebanese descent, was an oil broker, according to 1920 census records. Merchant Stanley Marcus, however, recalled that in the early 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).
Education
Lisa Halaby was 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 graduated from Princeton University in 1974.
Marriage and children
An architect-planner by training, she met King Hussein while working in Jordan on the development of the Amman Intercontinental Airport. They 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 Elizabeth to Noor, an Arabic word meaning "light".
As King Abdullah II's stepmother, Queen Noor cannot be classified as the Queen Mother of Jordan, although no apparent titular distinction has been made between her and Abdullah's wife, Queen Rania. The present King's mother, however, is Princess Muna al-Hussein, an Englishwoman formerly known as Antoinette Avril Gardiner.
Queen Noor and King Hussein had four children:
- Prince Hamzah (born March 29, 1980), Crown Prince from 1999 to 2004
- Prince Hashim (born June 10, 1981)
- Princess Iman (born April 24, 1983)
- Princess Raiyah (born February 9, 1986)
Notable works
In 2003, Queen Noor published a memoir, Leap of Faith, which became a bestseller.
See also
- Hashemite
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
Queen Noor (2003) Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life, Miramax Books, ISBN 0786867175
External links
- Official Queen Noor website
- Transcript of a speech given at The Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts in 1996
- 2002 commencement speech, Mount Holyoke College
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