Rania Al Abdullah Consort of the King of Jordan

Rania Al Abdullah (August 31, 1970 -), wife of King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. She is the Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and one of the first ladies in the Arab world who cares most about children’s and women’s rights. Rania Faisal Sidqi Al-Yasin was born in Kuwait to parents of Palestinian origin, and married King Abdullah II in 1993 before he took the throne. And she was called the Queen of Jordan several months after his coronation in 1999. Her father was a pediatrician in a hospital in Kuwait, who is of Palestinian descent, specifically from the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. Rania studied at the British School of Kuwait, and obtained a degree in Business Administration, Computers and Information from the American University in Cairo. Prior to her marriage to Abdullah, she worked at Citibank and Apple in Amman, Jordan. Rania is the mother of four children, the eldest of whom is the Crown Prince of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Prince Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II, and has devoted a lot of time to advancing education for a better future for Jordanian children. Among the most prominent projects that I started to achieve this goal is the Madrasati project, which was launched in 2008 and aims to maintain the infrastructure and rehabilitate 500 Jordanian public schools in partnership between the public and private sectors. And the Queen Rania Al Abdullah Award for Educational Excellence, which was launched based on her guidance. In 2002, she was elected to the founding board of the World Economic Forum. Rania has always been interested in building bridges between different cultures and spreading awareness about the reality of Arab and Islamic civilization. For these efforts it was awarded the North-South Prize by the European Centre. Rania has many books, including: The Swap of the Sandwiches, The Gift of the King, and The Permanent Beauty.

Its origins and studies

Rania Faisal Sidqi Al-Yasin was born in Kuwait to a Jordanian family of Palestinian origin from the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank of the Yasin family, and her mother, Ilham, a housewife, is from a well-established family from Nablus. They had left the West Bank after the defeat of the Jordanian army in 1967 and the occupation of the West Bank by Israeli forces. Rania was the middle daughter, Dina was three years older and Majdi a year younger. She completed her preparatory and secondary studies at the Modern English School in Kuwait, which is one of the private schools in which students have different nationalities, which affected her personality positively. Then, in 1991, she obtained a BA in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo.

After her graduation, she returned to Jordan and worked in the banking field for a while, then changed her field of work and switched to working for a short period in the field of information technology.

her marriage

She met Prince Abdullah, the eldest son of King Hussein, during a dinner party in January 1993, when she was 23 years old while Abdullah was 31 years old. Two months later, we announced their engagement, and the marriage took place six months later, on June 10, 1993. Their wedding ceremony was a national holiday. After the wedding, the newlyweds toured the streets of Amman in an open-top car to salute the people. Abdullah wore his military uniform because at that time he was serving as the deputy commander of the Elite Forces; While Rania wore a short-sleeved dress by British designer Bruce Oldfield. The bride was accompanied by five young girls. As bridesmaids they carried bouquets of yellow and white roses. As for the wedding cake, it was multi-storey, each floor in the form of a rectangular room decorated with crowns. They had four children:

Prince Al Hussein (Crown Prince).

Princess Iman.

Princess Salma.

Prince Hashem.

areas of community service
After becoming the first lady in Jordan, she practiced activities related to the concern of national affairs such as environment, health, youth and other matters. As a global figure, and one of the 100 most powerful women in the world, she focused her energies and efforts in Jordan and abroad on a number of issues, the most important of which is education. In Jordan, her efforts are focused on raising the level of excellence and quality of education provided to children and youth. At the global level, it is concerned with ensuring quality education for all, and calls on world leaders to abide by their commitments to provide basic education for all. Rania says about her role in society:

A great gift that gives you the opportunity to make a positive change in the lives of others, and it is my duty to make use of this gift that has been given to me.

Queen Rania is a major contributor to the management of Young Global Leaders.

Achievements of Queen Rania Al Abdullah in the field of child care

Queen Rania inaugurated the Al-Aman House for Child Protection in 9199AD, and it was the first of its kind in the region, as it was the only place that provided security for abused children. Queen Rania established the Al-Aman Fund for the Future of Orphans in 2006, with the aim of caring for young people And young orphaned women in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, who are over the age of eighteen and to help them secure their future, established the first interactive children’s museum in Jordan, the aim of which is to find an educational environment that includes interactive experiences to help encourage and enhance the learning process for children throughout their lives.

Achievements of Queen Rania Al Abdullah in the field of education Queen Rania inaugurated the Queen Rania Al Abdullah Center for Education and Information Technology on June 6, 2001 AD, which aims to employ modern technology in the educational process and develop it in Jordan. She launched the Queen Rania Al Abdullah Award for the Distinguished Teacher In 2006, because she believes in the importance of the role of the teacher in the educational process, and she appreciates his role in consolidating the principles of excellence and creativity, and his ability to positively influence students’ thinking.

Queen Rania Al Abdullah’s achievements in the field of health have inaugurated the Royal Society for Health Awareness. Salima free of diseases for Jordanian school students through health campaigns on various schools.

Queen Rania Al Abdullah has received more than 20 international awards and honorary certificates in recognition of her efforts and work in various fields.

Awards

2002, Italian Presidential Gold Medal from the Pio Manzo Center.

2005, Award from the General Organization of the Sesame Stories Program, United States of America.

2007, Humanitarian Action Award from the American Association of the United Nations in New York, USA.

2008, YouTube Creativity Award.

2009, North/South Prize, Portugal.

2009, FIFA Presidential Award in recognition of her efforts in support of the “Goal 1: Education for All” campaign.

2010, Arab Knight of Giving Award from the Arab Giving Forum, United Arab Emirates.

2010, Distinguished Leadership Award, USA.

2010, James C. Prize. Morgan Humanitarian, USA.

2010, Queen Rania Al Abdullah was named to the Glamor Woman of the Year list, USA.

2013, Global Citizenship Award from the Atlantic Council, USA.

2015, Walter Rathenau Prize from the Walter Rathenau Foundation, Germany.

2015, Children’s Worldwide Foundation Award, Queen Silvia Foundation, USA.

2016, Andrea Bocelli Humanitarian Award, Italy.

2016, Humanitarian Award from the Foreign Press Association, UK.

2016, Golden Heart Award from Heart for Children Charitable Organization, Germany.

2017, Global Leadership Award from Vital Voices, USA.

2017, an award of appreciation for her humanitarian role and efforts in childhood issues from the “Fashion Relief” Foundation, France.

2018, Influential Personality of the Year award at the Social Media Influencers Summit, United Arab Emirates.

Honorary degrees

2001 Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Exeter, UK.

2008 Honorary Doctorate in Educational Sciences from the University of Jordan.

2008 Honorary Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Malaya in Malaysia.

2015 Honorary Doctorate in “Development Science and International Cooperation” from Sapienza University in Italy.