Where did Queen Noor attend college?
Queen Noor was born Lisa Halaby. She was born, raised and educated in the United States; she attended National Cathedral School from fourth to eighth grade, and then went on to Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She entered Princeton University with its first coeducational freshman class, and received a BA in Architecture and Urban Planning in 1974. She also attended The Chapin School in Manhattan.
Queen Noor of Jordan (Arabic: الملكة نور ; born 23 August 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is the latest wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan. She was born an American of Syrian, English, Swedish, and Scottish descent. She is the current president of the United World Colleges movement and an advocate of the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Global Zero. Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby. She is the daughter of American Najeeb Halaby, a former CEO of Pan-American World Airways, one time head of the Federal Aviation Administration, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and his first wife, Doris Carlquist. She has a younger brother, Christian Halab. Noor’s paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby, a Syrian immigrant, was a petroleum broker, according to 1920 Census records. Merchant Stanley Marcus, however, recalled that in the mid-1920s, Halaby opened Halaby Galleries, a rug boutique and interior-decorating shop, at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas, and ran it
Queen Noor was born Lisa Halaby. She was born, raised and educated in the United States; she attended National Cathedral School from fourth to eighth grade, and then went on to Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She entered Princeton University with its first coeducational freshman class, and received a BA in Architecture and Urban Planning in 1974. She also attended The Chapin School in Manhattan. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
Queen Noor of Jordan (Arabic: الملكة نور ; born 23 August 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is the latest wife and widow of the late King Hussein of Jordan. She was born an American of Syrian, English, Swedish, and Scottish descent. She is the current president of the United World Colleges movement and an advocate of the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign, Global Zero. Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby. She is the daughter of American Najeeb Halaby, a former CEO of Pan-American World Airways, one time head of the Federal Aviation Administration, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and his first wife, Doris Carlquist. She has a younger brother, Christian Halab. Noor’s paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby, a Syrian immigrant, was a petroleum broker, according to 1920 Census records. Merchant Stanley Marcus, however, recalled that in the mid-1920s, Halaby opened Halaby Galleries, a rug boutique and interior-decorating shop, at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Texas, and ran it
