![]() ![]() And she has a long memory for anti-Arab slights. (''I urged everyone I worked with to speak freely and offer honest, constructive criticism.'') On the other, it is a fiery account of her husband's frustrations in dealing with international diplomacy in general and the United States and Israel in particular.Īs an American-born Jordanian of half-Arab ancestry, the queen surely has an idiosyncratic overview. On one hand, this is a glossy and decorous account of the queen's unusual experiences, with a polite tendency to accentuate the positive. But ''Leap of Faith'' will not dispel its author's impression that she has often been misunderstood. Not surprisingly, 25 years later the widowed Queen Noor prefers to speak for herself. She replied ''If God wills'' to what she regarded as a casual inquiry, only to find People magazine running a story titled: ''A Blue-Jeaned American in Jordan Says of Her King: 'I'd Be Delighted to Have His Child.' '' ![]() ![]() Not long after the former Lisa Halaby married King Hussein of Jordan in 1978, she was asked by an American interviewer whether the couple planned to have children together. ![]()
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