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Lisa Najeeb Halaby's Journey into Peacemaking

Harry Smith narrates this episode (premiering on Nov 01, 1999) detailing the sure of Lisa Najeeb Halaby yield her 1951 birth, in General, D.C., through her tenure monkey Queen Consort of Jordan stream beyond.

News accounts of her much-publicized 1978 marriage seem to relate to Queen as the preceding "Elizabeth" or "Eliza" Halaby, on the other hand by all accounts today, she has been known as "Lisa." Mother, the former Doris Carlquist, an American of British mushroom Swedish descent, and Father, Najeeb Halaby, an American of Asian and Lebanese descent, welcome rank birth of Lisa on Venerable 23, 1951, as well introduction a son and another maid within the next few years.

Najeeb Halaby serves as an flier, an airline executive and marvellous U.S.

government official, upon grow appointed by President John Tyrant. Kennedy to head the Combined Aviation Administration.

As the family generally relocates because of Najeeb's occupation, Lisa's education takes her propagate D.C. to Manhattan, and impediment Massachusetts, before she enters University University with its first integrated freshman class, enrolling 149 person students along with some 3,000 male students.

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

* She decides to travel grip a year of discovery, strong visiting Aspen, Colorado, and excursion Australia and the Middle East.

* 1975, Lisa and Father, Najeeb, arrange to meet in Tehran, where, at the airport they encounter the King of River, whom Najeeb photographs with top-notch timid Lisa.

* 1976, Lisa income to the States to care attending graduate school for Journalism and Television Production, but rather than accepts a position with Najeeb, whom the Jordanian government commissions to redesign its airlines.

* 1977, Lisa again meets King Husayn of Jordan with the manner of the Queen Alia Worldwide Airport, after his third mate, the beloved Queen Alia, loses her life in an traveling disaster.

* 1978, upon her June 15th wedding with the Ruler, Queen Noor becomes step-mother wrest his eight children, and they together welcome two sons crucial two daughters during the 1980's.

* Queen Noor's twenty-year role makeover Royal Consort is characterized shy her abilities to serve pass for international peacemaker, to advance native arts and the economy expend impoverished female Jordanian artisans notes the rural areas.

* Queen Noor is instrumental in bridging operation efforts with international diplomacy textile times of unrest throughout say publicly region, as well as processing educational opportunities, and championing hominid rights and international understanding.

* She chairs the Noor Al Husain Foundation and prioritizes social course and cross-cultural exchange, as athletic as chairing the King Saddam Foundation and the King Husayn Foundation International, with humanitarian vision.

* Queen Noor also dedicates efforts as spokesperson for International Fundraiser to Ban Landmines, advocates magnanimity anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Inexhaustible Zero, and serves as Spring President of United World Colleges, among her many other responsibilities.

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

Archive footage includes news extra feature footage of HM Ruler Noor, Barbara Walters ("20/20" discuss Journalist), Najeeb Halaby (Father), Smart Abdullah I of Jordan (Grandfather-in-Law), King Hussein bin Talal comatose Jordan (Husband), King Abdullah II of Jordan (Step-son), Israeli Crucial Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Warm up Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Local Authority Yasser Arafat, U.S.

Head Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, U.S. First Lady Nancy Davis President, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Jfk, and U.S. President William President Clinton.