(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Amman)  Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah visited Al Khansa’a Secondary School for Girls on Tuesday and attended part of Queen Rania Teacher Academy’s (QRTA) Novice Teacher Training. The program is being …

Queen Rania of Jordan continued her quest to raise awareness about the plight of Syrian refugees today as she visited the Greek Island of Lesbos.  The 45-year-old Jordanian queen spent time chatting with female refugees before making a heartfelt speech …

Queen of Jordan Rania Al Abdullah has visited refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos - before highlighting the urgent need for a “sustainable long-term solution to this crisis”. The monarch was visiting the island’s Kara Tepe refugee camp, home to more …

Queen Rania of Jordan was moved to tears as she paid an emotional visit to the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday. Themum-of-four met several refugees, including young children and babies who have suffered "unspeakable …

More than 300 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Mediterranean by the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières. The group have been taken to the Sicilian port of Pozzallo. Italian authorities say some 24,000 migrants and refugees have arrived …

Queen Rania of Jordan met refugees at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday in a visit to highlight the plight of people she said had "seen unspeakable horror and experienced unthinkable tragedy". Scores of refugees and migrants clapped and …

In this handout image supplied by the Office of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Royal Hashemite Court, Queen Rania of Jordan meets Syrian refuges at the Karatepe municipality camp for refugees on the outskirts of Mytilene, on April 25, 2016 in …

In his novel “Blindness,” José Saramago asks us to imagine a world where one by one, people lose their sight. The epidemic triggers apocalyptic scenes of panic, cruelty, disorder and, eventually, the breakdown of society. It’s fiction, of course. After …