How Do You Feel About “Queen Noor Discusses Destroying Nuclear Weapons On The Colbert …”?
The New York Public Library will host her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan tonight in a panel discussion, part of a special three-night series of conversations in the Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas Festival. Entitled “Media: “A Catalyst for Change,” the discussion will be moderated by Shamil Idriss from the Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund. Other panelists include Benjamin Barber (author of “Jihad vs. McWorld”) and Andrea ter Avest Dahm, a dramatist from the Netherlands. Queen Noor will represent the King Hussein Foundation. The series concludes tomorrow evening, and here’s more from the release: “Popular media images or negative stereotypes that insult or humiliate Muslim groups have been shown to be related to the polarization between Muslim and Western societies.
Queen Noor has been making the media rounds for her great new cause — ridding the world of nuclear weapons. The Jordanian queen, who was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby to an Arab-American family in the U.S. and went on to marry the now-deceased King Hussein, works with Global Zero, a new international initiative working to eliminate the world’s nuclear weapons stockpiles. Hoping to spread the word, she appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” last night, during which she touted Global Zero’s work — and knighted host Stephen Colbert leader of the Colbert Nation, but not after driving a hard bargain: she required him to sign onto the Global Zero initiative first. Nuclear proliferation is the “gravest security threat to the world today,” she said. Colbert tried to get at which country had the most weapons, but Noor kept her cool. “But how can we get rid of nuclear weapons — nuclear weapons are what keep us safe from other people’s nuclear weapons?” Colbert asked in his typical snarky st
