It provides a compelling portrait of the late King Hussein and his lifelong effort to bring peace to his wartorn region, and an insider's view of the growing gulf between the United States and the Arab nations. But most of all this is a love story - an honest and engaging portrait of a truly remarkable woman and the man she married. It is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. She tells of her heartbreaking miscarriage and the births of her four children, along with her continuing support for King Hussein's campaign to bring peace to the Arab nations. With eloquence and honesty, Queen Noor speaks of the obstacles she faced as a young bride and of her successful struggle to create a role for herself as a humanitarian activist. After a whirlwind romance, she became Noor Al Hussein, Queen of Jordan. Then, in 1974, her life took a very different turn, when her father introduced her to the world's most eligible bachelor, King Hussein of Jordan. After studying architecture at Princeton, her work on projects in the Middle East gave her a profound understanding both of the links between the environment and social problems, and also of the tumultuous history of the Arab nations. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Halaby was a strongly independent young woman.
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