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Queen Rania Of Jordan

Rania Al Abdullah (Arabic: الملكة رانيا العبد الله‎ Rānyā al-‘abdu l-Lāh) (born Rania al Yassin on 31 August 1970) is the current Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan. In a 2009 list of the 100 most powerfully influential women in the world, Queen Rania ranked 76th. She has focused her energy, at home and abroad, on a variety of causes. In Jordan, her work concentrates on the calibre and quality of education for Jordanian children, while abroad she advocates for global education and for world leaders to fulfill their commitments towards the second Millennium Development Goal, Universal Primary Education. Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from Tulkarm. She attended school at New English School in Jabriya Kuwait, then earned a degree in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo. Upon her graduation from American University, Queen Rania returned to Jordan. She worked briefly in marketing, for Citibank, followed by a ...

Sheikha Mozah of Qatar

Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned is the second of the three wives of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar. She married the Emir (at the time Crown Prince) in 1977 at the age of 18, while she was attending Qatar University. She has seven children, five sons and two daughters. She graduated from Qatar University in 1986 with a BA in Sociology and holds several posts in Qatar and internationally: Her Highness currently serves as UNESCO’s Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education. In this role, she promotes literacy in the Arab world and Asia. Her Highness is also a member of the High Level Group of the UN Alliance of Civilizations which was established to assess the forces that contribute to extremism and recommend collective action to counter those forces. Her Highness is the first Arab and the first woman to be awarded the Prize of the Royal Institute for International Affairs from Chatham House, a world renowned British think tank that focuse...

Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson lahir di Paris, Perancis, 15 April 1990 adalah seorang aktris Inggris yang memainkan peran Hermione Granger dalam film Harry Potter. Emma Watson adalah anak dari pasangan pengacara Chris dan Jacqueline Watson Dia menghabiskan tahun-tahun awalnya di Paris, Perancis, dan Oxford, Inggris.