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Article: Jordan's global-age Queen Rania points path of change for Mideast.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 11, 2001
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Queen Rania of Jordan is a gorgeous 30-year-old business school graduate who talks enthusiastically about microfinance.
She is half of the Mideast's most intriguing couple, wife to King Abdullah II of Jordan, who unexpectedly inherited the throne two years ago on the death of the legendary King Hussein. Abdullah wants to integrate his small country into the globalized world.
The Jordanian monarch has labored mightily to modernize his kingdom's economy. Jordan joined the World Trade Organization, pushed high-tech education, and signed a free-trade agreement with the United States that includes labor and environmental standards. All this in addition to ...