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Jordan's Queen Noor to talk peace at Penn
American wife of late King Hussein involved in promoting health care, women's rights
bygd Jessica Kaplan 09/15/03 5:00amIn just a few weeks, Penn's campus will be graced with the presence of royalty.
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan will speak in Irvine Auditorium as the Social Planning and Events Committee Connaissance's fall speaker as part of the Provost's Spotlight Series, the group announced on Friday.
The event, which has been in the works since last May, will be held on Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. when Queen Noor will speak about the current situation in the Middle East. She will discuss her involvement in the peace process, as well as her dedication to humanitarian causes.
After extensive discussions and negotiations, SPEC Connaissance was able to decide how to best use their budget of approximately $37,000 for their annual fall speaker -- allocated to them by the Undergraduate Assembly -- to nab such an influential w
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Najeeb Elias Halaby
Najeeb E. Halaby, a lawyer, Navy test pilot and venture capitalist who headed the Federal Aviation Administration and Pan American World Airways and was the father of a queen, died in July 2003. He was 87. Long before his daughter Lisa became a celebrity as Queen Noor of Jordan, the sharp-featured and dashing Halaby was a prominent figure in the tjänsteman and cultural life of Washington. President Kennedy appointed Halaby to the FAA in 1961. Najeeb Elias Halaby was born in Dallas to a mother who was a native of Texas and an Arab American father. Halaby was a graduate of Stanford University, where he was captain of the golf grupp, and Yale University Law School. He helped organize the Navy's first test pilot school, was a test pilot for the first U.S. jet plane, the Bell P-59, and made the first continuous transcontinental jet flygning. His marriage to Doris Carlquist Halaby ended in divorce. He was married to Jane Allison Coates Halaby from 1980 until her d
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Program: Queen Noor of Jordan, humanitarian activist
Monica Attard: Hello and welcome to Sunday Profile, I'm Monica Attard. This week we're joined by Queen Noor of Jordan - the American-born wife of King Hussein who's made it her life mission to help refugees, and convince the world's superpowers to rid themselves of nuclear weapons.
She was once known as Lisa Najeeb Halaby.
She worked around the world as an architect and urban planner until, aged 26, she met King Hussein of Jordan, a respected moderate leader who, on all accounts, brought political stability and prosperity to his homeland. She converted to Islam and bore him four children.
When King Hussein died a decade ago, it was not their eldest son Prince Hamzah who ascended to the throne - it was her husband's son from his second marriage. So whilst she's Queen Noor of Jordan; she is not the Queen of Jordan - that title belongs to the reigning King's wife.
In the ten years since K