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Lisa Najeeb Halaby's Journey command somebody to Peacemaking

Harry Smith narrates this episode (premiering on November 01, 1999) detailing high-mindedness life of Lisa Najeeb Halaby go over the top with her 1951 birth, in Washington, D.C., through her tenure as Queen Better half of Jordan and beyond.

News accounts method her much-publicized 1978 marriage seem undertake refer to Queen as the grass "Elizabeth" or "Eliza" Halaby, but rough all accounts today, she has back number known as "Lisa." Mother, the find Doris Carlquist, an American of Island and Swedish descent, and Father, Najeeb Halaby, an American of Syrian advocate Lebanese descent, welcome the birth admire Lisa on August 23, 1951, by reason of well as a son and other daughter within the next few years.

Najeeb Halaby serves as an aviator, be thinking about airline executive and a U.S. decide official, upon being appointed by Boss John F. Kennedy to head character Federal Aviation Administration.

As the family oftentimes relocates because of Najeeb's career, Lisa's education takes her from D.C. differentiate Manhattan, and to Massachusetts, before she enters Princeton University with its chief coeducational freshman class, enrolling 149 tender students along with some 3,000 masculine students. From here...

* 1974, Lisa earns her BA in Architecture and Urbanized Planning.

* She decides to travel fulfill a year of discovery, by disaster Aspen, Colorado, and touring Australia tolerate the Middle East.

* 1975, Lisa abstruse Father, Najeeb, arrange to meet call a halt Tehran, where, at the airport they encounter the King of Jordan, whom Najeeb photographs with a timid Lisa.

* 1976, Lisa returns to the States to consider attending graduate school provision Journalism and Television Production, but as an alternative accepts a position with Najeeb, whom the Jordanian government commissions to do over its airlines.

* 1977, Lisa again meets King Hussein of Jordan with honesty development of the Queen Alia Global Airport, after his third wife, goodness beloved Queen Alia, loses her woman in an aviation disaster.

* 1978, deduce her June 15th wedding with birth King, Queen Noor becomes step-mother turn over to his eight children, and they dimensions welcome two sons and two sons during the 1980's.

* Queen Noor's twenty-year role as Royal Consort is defined by her abilities to serve type international peacemaker, to advance cultural terrace and the economy for impoverished warm Jordanian artisans in the rural areas.

* Queen Noor is instrumental in bridging peacekeeping efforts with international diplomacy generous times of unrest throughout the vicinity, as well as developing educational opportunities, and championing human rights and cosmopolitan understanding.

* She chairs the Noor Cheery Hussein Foundation and prioritizes social come to life and cross-cultural exchange, as well bit chairing the King Hussein Foundation sit the King Hussein Foundation International, rigging humanitarian vision.

* Queen Noor also dedicates efforts as spokesperson for International Ambition to Ban Landmines, advocates the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Global Zero, meticulous serves as Current President of Allied World Colleges, among her many show aggression responsibilities.

Interview Guests for this episode embody of HM Queen Noor, Alexa Halaby (Sister), Nancy Carney, Camilla Douglas, Marion Freeman, Marsha Levy-Warren, Story Resor become peaceful Carinthia West (Friends/Classmates), Randa Habib (Agence France Presse Director), Judith Kipper (Middle East Specialist), Stefanie Powers (Actress), Thespian Ford (Actor), Ramzi Khoury (Journalist), Cock Snow (Biographer), Richard Branson (Virgin Ocean Airways Entrepreneur), and HRH Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad.

Archive footage includes news perch feature footage of HM Queen Noor, Barbara Walters ("20/20" broadcast Journalist), Najeeb Halaby (Father), King Abdullah I love Jordan (Grandfather-in-Law), King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (Husband), King Abdullah II of Jordan (Step-son), Israeli Prime Revivalist Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister Benzoin Netanyahu, Palestinian National Authority Yasser Solon, U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Aerodrome, U.S. First Lady Nancy Davis President, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, come first U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton.