2008

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Posting her second response to the YouTube community on stereotypes facing Arab and Muslim communities, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is speaking out on honor crimes and violence against women.

Many of the stereotypes received on the Queen’s YouTube channel have focused on women’s empowerment issues. Specifically, many YouTubers raised the issues of domestic violence and honor crimes coming out of the region.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Saudi Arabia) Delivering the keynote address at the Saudi-based Effat College’s sixth Annual Learning Technology Symposium, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah called for a global dialogue to dismantle stereotypes of Muslims on the one hand and of the suppression of women in the Arab world on the other.

“It is through a global dialogue that such stereotypes of Muslims can be dismantled, and it is through women’s sustained education and progress that such misconceptions can be removed,” she said.

(Jordan Times - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday highlighted youth unemployment and traffic accidents in the Kingdom, and urged for solutions to tackle these endemic problems.

“So that the unemployment rate in Jordan will not get any higher, we should create 80,000 work opportunities annually, that is, a job every seven minutes,” Queen Rania said yesterday during the Next Generation Conference (NGC), a gathering which examines solutions for common challenges facing youths in the Arab World.

(Office of Her Majesty, Queen Rania – Baku, Azerbaijan) While accompanying His Majesty King Abdullah II on a working trip to Azerbaijan, Her Majesty Queen Rania paid a visit to the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to see their work in enhancing cross cultural dialogue in the fields of culture, science and technology, sport and education.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Davos) As the humanitarian conditions continue to worsen in Gaza, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah spoke out about the situation while in Davos, Friday, where she urged the international community "to reach out, to make sure that we deal with the humanitarian issues, to make sure that we take care of the women and children who have nothing to do with this political process in the first place.

(Jordan Times, Roufan Nahhas - Dead Sea) The three-day 4th International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport held under the patronage of Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania concluded on Monday with the participation of more than 500 delegates from 150 countries at the King Hussein Ben Talal Convention Centre.
 
Her Majesty Queen Rania discussed the role played by women in developing sports. 
 

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department – Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah often speaks of how much she enjoys spending quality time with children, so it was no surprise to any of the 40 young students gathered at the Children’s Museum of Jordan to have the Queen there to narrate her own story, Wednesday, in celebration of Mother’s Day.

Queen Rania joined a mother and a grandmother from Irbid and Salt, both deemed cultural capitals in 2007 and 2008, respectively, to read to the assembled youngsters, and celebrate Mother’s Day.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) As the Axis of Evil comedy group returns to the Middle East for the third time this year, comedian Maz Jobrani has released some exclusive new material on Queen Rania’s YouTube channel to support the battle against stereotypes.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Zarqa) In a scene typical of an Arabian fairytale, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah presided over the graduation ceremony of the third class of mounted policewomen in Zarqa, on Wednesday. 
 
Standing in a barren desert, surrounded by decorated horses, Queen Rania handed out certificates to Sergeant Khadija Jamal Al Deen Ismaeel, Sergeant Major Amal Nasser Abdullah, and Wala Zakariya Mohammad, who were awarded the first, second, and third place prizes respectively. 
 

(Jordan Times - Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania on Sunday underlined the importance of the mission of the Royal Consultative Committee on general education in drawing up education programmes and curricula to reflect the Kingdom’s educational process and its output.

During a meeting with committee members yesterday, the Queen reiterated that the private sector, civil society institutions and students’ families need to cooperate with the Ministry of Education to support its various projects and programmes.