When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANWhen girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMuslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI 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 JORDANSocial media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANReligion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANI want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANModernity is not about dress codes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANFor many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANIt is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANBeing queen is overrated.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANMaybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANEducate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANWe look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, ‘Well, that’s their problem.’ But it’s not. … When you solve somebody else’s problem, you’re solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANOf 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?
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANGood teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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