Chronicles the fairy-tale romance of Jordan's late King Hussein and all-American girl Lisa Halaby.Chronicles the fairy-tale romance of Jordan's late King Hussein and all-American girl Lisa Halaby.Chronicles the fairy-tale romance of Jordan's late King Hussein and all-American girl Lisa Halaby.
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Lisa Najeeb Halaby's Journey into Peacemaking
Harry Smith narrates this episode (premiering on November 01, 1999) detailing the life of Lisa Najeeb Halaby from her 1951 birth, in Washington, D.C., through her tenure as Queen Consort of Jordan and beyond.
News accounts of her much-publicized 1978 marriage seem to refer to Queen as the former "Elizabeth" or "Eliza" Halaby, but by all accounts today, she has been known as "Lisa." Mother, the former Doris Carlquist, an American of British and Swedish descent, and Father, Najeeb Halaby, an American of Syrian and Lebanese descent, welcome the birth of Lisa on August 23, 1951, as well as a son and another daughter within the next few years.
Najeeb Halaby serves as an aviator, an airline executive and a U.S. government official, upon being appointed by President John F. Kennedy to head the Federal Aviation Administration.
As the family often relocates because of Najeeb's career, Lisa's education takes her from D.C. to Manhattan, and to Massachusetts, before she enters Princeton University with its first coeducational freshman class, enrolling 149 female students along with some 3,000 male students. From here...
* 1974, Lisa earns her BA in Architecture and Urban Planning.
* She decides to travel for a year of discovery, by visiting Aspen, Colorado, and touring Australia and the Middle East.
* 1975, Lisa and Father, Najeeb, arrange to meet in 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 for Journalism and Television Production, but instead accepts a position with Najeeb, whom the Jordanian government commissions to redesign its airlines.
* 1977, Lisa again meets King Hussein of Jordan with the development of the Queen Alia International Airport, after his third wife, the beloved Queen Alia, loses her life in an aviation disaster.
* 1978, upon her June 15th wedding with the King, Queen Noor becomes step-mother to his eight children, and they together welcome two sons and two daughters during the 1980's.
* Queen Noor's twenty-year role as Royal Consort is characterized by her abilities to serve as international peacemaker, to advance cultural arts and the economy for impoverished female Jordanian artisans in the rural areas.
* Queen Noor is instrumental in bridging peacekeeping efforts with international diplomacy during times of unrest throughout the region, as well as developing educational opportunities, and championing human rights and international understanding.
* She chairs the Noor Al Hussein Foundation and prioritizes social development and cross-cultural exchange, as well as chairing the King Hussein Foundation and the King Hussein Foundation International, with humanitarian vision.
* Queen Noor also dedicates efforts as spokesperson for International Campaign to Ban Landmines, advocates the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Global Zero, and serves as Current President of United World Colleges, among her many other responsibilities.
Interview Guests for this episode consist of HM Queen Noor, Alexa Halaby (Sister), Nancy Carney, Camilla Douglas, Marion Freeman, Marsha Levy-Warren, Story Resor and Carinthia West (Friends/Classmates), Randa Habib (Agence France 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 bin Ra'ad.
Archive footage includes news and feature footage of HM Queen Noor, Barbara Walters ("20/20" broadcast Journalist), Najeeb Halaby (Father), King Abdullah I of Jordan (Grandfather-in-Law), King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (Husband), King Abdullah II of Jordan (Step-son), Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat, U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, U.S. First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton.
News accounts of her much-publicized 1978 marriage seem to refer to Queen as the former "Elizabeth" or "Eliza" Halaby, but by all accounts today, she has been known as "Lisa." Mother, the former Doris Carlquist, an American of British and Swedish descent, and Father, Najeeb Halaby, an American of Syrian and Lebanese descent, welcome the birth of Lisa on August 23, 1951, as well as a son and another daughter within the next few years.
Najeeb Halaby serves as an aviator, an airline executive and a U.S. government official, upon being appointed by President John F. Kennedy to head the Federal Aviation Administration.
As the family often relocates because of Najeeb's career, Lisa's education takes her from D.C. to Manhattan, and to Massachusetts, before she enters Princeton University with its first coeducational freshman class, enrolling 149 female students along with some 3,000 male students. From here...
* 1974, Lisa earns her BA in Architecture and Urban Planning.
* She decides to travel for a year of discovery, by visiting Aspen, Colorado, and touring Australia and the Middle East.
* 1975, Lisa and Father, Najeeb, arrange to meet in 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 for Journalism and Television Production, but instead accepts a position with Najeeb, whom the Jordanian government commissions to redesign its airlines.
* 1977, Lisa again meets King Hussein of Jordan with the development of the Queen Alia International Airport, after his third wife, the beloved Queen Alia, loses her life in an aviation disaster.
* 1978, upon her June 15th wedding with the King, Queen Noor becomes step-mother to his eight children, and they together welcome two sons and two daughters during the 1980's.
* Queen Noor's twenty-year role as Royal Consort is characterized by her abilities to serve as international peacemaker, to advance cultural arts and the economy for impoverished female Jordanian artisans in the rural areas.
* Queen Noor is instrumental in bridging peacekeeping efforts with international diplomacy during times of unrest throughout the region, as well as developing educational opportunities, and championing human rights and international understanding.
* She chairs the Noor Al Hussein Foundation and prioritizes social development and cross-cultural exchange, as well as chairing the King Hussein Foundation and the King Hussein Foundation International, with humanitarian vision.
* Queen Noor also dedicates efforts as spokesperson for International Campaign to Ban Landmines, advocates the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Global Zero, and serves as Current President of United World Colleges, among her many other responsibilities.
Interview Guests for this episode consist of HM Queen Noor, Alexa Halaby (Sister), Nancy Carney, Camilla Douglas, Marion Freeman, Marsha Levy-Warren, Story Resor and Carinthia West (Friends/Classmates), Randa Habib (Agence France 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 bin Ra'ad.
Archive footage includes news and feature footage of HM Queen Noor, Barbara Walters ("20/20" broadcast Journalist), Najeeb Halaby (Father), King Abdullah I of Jordan (Grandfather-in-Law), King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (Husband), King Abdullah II of Jordan (Step-son), Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat, U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, U.S. First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton.
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