Queen Rania

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Davos) Over the next five years, the city of Milan, which has been selected as the host of the EXPO 2015 world exhibition, will also become a hub for addressing women’s issues across the world, thanks to the “2015: Women and EXPO” project launched on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Doha) “There cannot be value without human value” was the core massage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah’s special address, delivered today at the Official Opening of the WEF Global Redesign Summit, in Doha, Qatar. Opened by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar; the Summit mainly focuses on proposals for improved international cooperation.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met today with several groups of participants in the Youth Leadership Program at The Queen Rania Family and Child Center (QRFCC). The Youth Leadership Program “Towards an Empowered Generation” is one of several programs offered by the center, which is the brain child of the Jordan River Foundation (JRF), founded by Her Majesty.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah underlined the integral role of women in the development of societies noting that women’s participation was not an end but a means that could achieve further progress for Arab societies.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Amman) In a special two-hour edition of CNN’s Larry King dedicated to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan, on Monday, urged the international community to support the United Nations Foundation’s emergency relief efforts and UNICEF, which is working to rescue thousands of orphaned and injured children in the aftermath of the catastrophic quake.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah was at the Civil Defense headquarters, Thursday, to meet with some of the victims of last year's tragic hotel bombings, as well as their families. Her Majesty also joined members of the National Steering Committee to discuss the launch of the Humanitarian Support Network.

Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan was the toast of New York last week when she jetted in for the United Nations’ Millennium Goals summit and the Clinton Global Initiative conference.

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In addition to her efforts on behalf of education, human rights and women's issues, Jordan's monarch focused this year on bridging gaps between the U.S. and the Middle East. In August she announced via Twitvid, a Twitter video application, the winners of a tourism contest she sponsored, which will bring an American to Jordan and send a Jordanian to the U.S. on all-expense-paid trips. She's a queen of social media, too, with more than 1.3 million followers on Twitter and more than 300,000 fans on Facebook; she also maintains her own website and YouTube channel.

Rania Yasin was born on August 31, 1970, in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. A doctor's daughter, she grew up in a comfortable home on the West Bank alongside her two siblings. She received a thoroughly Western education, first at the New English School in Kuwait City and then at the American University in Cairo, where she graduated with a business degree.