I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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I don’t believe that there is fair enough understanding of either our status as women or the total context of our lives, which is very rich and multi-faceted.
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We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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Being queen is overrated.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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The youth are the catalysts for real change.
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I don’t believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I’m amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
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