Her father's aviation business produced a chance meeting with King Hussein in 1976, and a year or two later Noor realized the king was courting her. Born in America in 1951 as Lisa Halaby, Noor came from a wealthy, well-connected family and was part of Princeton's first co-ed class. Our apologies to Sontag and Marcus.Will readily warm to the love story of Queen Noor and the late King Hussein of Jordan. Letter by Woolf scholar Jane Marcus as a criticism of Sontag's words about the Woolf book. 17), both in stating that certain war photos appeared in late editions of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas, one subject of Sontag's book, and in misconstruing a New Yorker Vogue and ubiquitous reviews, it should draw readers.Įrred in its FYI to the review of Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag (Forecasts, Feb.

Larry King Live, an excerpt in this month's 18)įorecast: The legions of royalty fans will clamor for this long-awaited memoir, and with the queen's appearances on Her pleasing memoir ends with the king's death after his struggle with cancer, although readers may suspect that this smart, courageous woman will remain a world presence for years to come. And while she occasionally acknowledges her domestic difficulties, Noor is careful not to allow personal problems to become any more than asides. Her own activities-developing village-based economic self-sufficiency projects and improving Jordan's medical, educational and cultural facilities-take second place to her husband's struggles on the world stage. Noor details Hussein's struggles to create Arab unity and his vision of peaceful coexistence with Israel. There are meetings with Arafat, Saddam Hussein, American presidents and other leaders. From this point on, her story is mostly his, mainly covering his attempts to broker peace in the Middle East. The rumor mills buzzed: was she the next Grace Kelly? Before long, the king renamed her Noor ('light' in Arabic), and she converted to Islam.

Will readily warm to the love story of Queen Noor and the late King Hussein of Jordan.

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