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the royal we; A chance encounter with Queen Noor of Jordan helped Diana Abu-Jaber bridge the two-and often competing-parts of her cultural identity.
Byline: Diana Abu-jaber
King Hussein always looked dashing-part Prince Rainier, part Cary Grant, just as handsome on a motorcycle as he was in his royal robes. I only saw the pictures. My father shared a soccer ball with him. Not friends, exactly-Hussein was five years older and moved mostly within the royal social strata-but familiar: Their families grew up together in the same swanky hillside neighborhood on Jebel Amman. And the Abu-Jabers were a venerable old land-rich clan known as the Sulateen Il Bar-the Sultans of the Desert. My father's uncles were senators and mayors, his brothers destined to become scholars and diplomats. Dad and Hussein traveled in ...
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