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Article: Jordan is Abdullah's crowning glory.(ARTS)(TELEVISION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2002
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Byline: Judith Kreiner, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Travel Channel is inviting Westerners to take a royal tour of Jordan on Monday, with King Abdullah II as the guide. After the images of destruction wrought by men in the name of their religion, it is reassuring to visit an Arab country, a Muslim country, and meet rational and welcoming people in a land that traces its roots back at least 5,000 years.
Abdullah, son and successor to the late King Hussein, resembles a little boy finding he has an unexpected week of vacation from school as he guides us through a land he knows intimately.
Abdullah was not raised to be a king; that duty was to have gone ...