2006

Thank you, John, for that kind introduction. It is great to be here with you and other visionary leaders to talk about the importance of education and our experience with the Jordan Education Initiative. And I would like to thank you for your belief in Jordan, and commitment to JEI. Your support, and that of all our partners, has enabled us to grasp an exciting opportunity.

Thank you, Sheikh Nahayan, for those kind words – and, more importantly, for your commitment to women’s education.

I am delighted to be here with all of you… to be a part of this conference… and especially, to share the program with such inspiring women leaders. 

I am sure everyone here, throughout our lives, has learned a great deal from the women around us – our mothers, grandmothers, sisters and friends. 

Thank you, Nermin, for those kind words – and, more importantly, for all you do as president of the Mosaic Foundation. Over the past eight years, the Mosaic Foundation has played an inspiring role – not only in lifting the lives of women and children around the world… but in showing how much Arab women can do, individually and collectively. Tonight’s magnificent gala is just the latest proof of your leadership.

I would also like to thank Laura Bush for honoring us with her support… and for her lifetime of service on behalf of children, literacy and education.

On-off negotiations, limp handshakes, violated agreements, starts and stops, hopes dashed. This, the landscape of the Middle East peace process in the last decade. In 2006, what our region needed was a renewed peace effort; what our region got was the devastating cat and mouse conclusion of Hezbollah’s skirmishes and Israel’s imperious invasion of Lebanon. 

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - New Delhi) Addressing an audience of leaders, opinion shapers and policy makers from all around India, on Friday, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah spoke of Jordan and India’s shared spirit of optimism and openness, charging one of the world’s emerging economic powers with the responsibility towards a moral and just leadership in the 21st century.

(Jordan Times, Petra - Dead Sea) Participants in the second Young Arab Leaders (YAL) forum concluded their two-day meeting on Monday by issuing recommendations on development of the youth sector and empowering young Arabs to assume leadership positions in their communities.

They also agreed on accelerating plans to build educational programmes, jointly with specialised institutions, to train and produce, on a scientific basis, a generation of young Arab leaders.

(Jordan Times - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday joined a group of schoolchildren attending a performance of “Stop,” part of an educational campaign designed to raise traffic awareness among schoolchildren.

The play is one of the activities implemented by the National Traffic Awareness Campaign, which was launched by Queen Rania, in cooperation with the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) and the private sector.

(The Jordan Times - Madaba) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Wednesday met with women activists working under the Women's Empowerment for Democracy and Governance Project — MAKANA in Madaba and underlined the importance of their role in addressing problems facing local communities.

Under the MAKANA project, women volunteers help address domestic daily life problems in their areas through listening to local demands and conveying these to officials.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - New York) During day two of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah stressed that the only way to create a stable and secure world is to address global injustices, specifically in the Arab world.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Deauville) At the opening ceremony of the second annual meeting of the Women's Forum in Deauville, France on Thursday, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah urged attendants from the corporate world, public sector, and civil society to start a trend of multicultural responsibility and replace a growing culture of fear and suspicion around the world with a revolution of acceptance and hope.