In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I did feel a sense of duty. I felt that it could be a great asset to the future of Jordan, and… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country. — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged -… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years,… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I founded the King Hussein Foundation after my husband's death in 1999, to build on his humanitarian vision and legacy in the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Of course, in our country, developing in a region with somewhat conservative traditions, women were desperately needed to be more engaged - socially, economically,… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society.… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following. — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country. — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
I have witnessed firsthand the anguish of this humanitarian tragedy - in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and other conflict and post-conflict zones. The destruction… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I was growing… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share
