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Author Noor, Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan, 1951-

Title Leap of faith : memoirs of an unexpected life / Queen Noor.

Publication Info. New York : Miramax Books, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DS154.52.N87 A3 2003    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Queen Noor talks frankly of the many challenges of her life as wife and partner to the monarch, providing both an intimate portrait of the late King Hussein and a moving account of their public role.
Contents First impressions -- Roots -- Tehran journal -- Audience with the King -- Leap of faith -- Honeymoon at Gleneagles -- Young bride in the royal household -- Pomp and circumstance -- One crisis after another -- America through new eyes -- At home and abroad -- "Women hold up half the sky" -- Parenthood -- Growing pains -- Prelude to war -- Fire in the Gulf -- Test of faith -- Day like no other -- Edge of the Abyss -- White bird -- Skies cried.
Subject Noor, Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan, 1951-
Noor, Queen, consort of Hussein, King of Jordan, 1951-
Queens -- Jordan -- Biography.
Queens.
Jordan.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
Jordan -- Politics and government -- 1952-1999.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1952-1999
Subject Arab-Israeli conflict.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 0786867175 : $25.95