Queen Noor of Jordan made a career in public life at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Queen Noor of Jordan as Queen and Queen Dowager of Jordan; philanthropist and activist.
Queen Noor of Jordan was born at Washington, D.C. in 1951. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Princeton University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives her occupations as writer, autobiographer and architect.
Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and Knight of the Order of the Elephant (1998).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Queen Noor of Jordan is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Knight of the Order of the Elephant — 1998
- Educated at Princeton University
- Worked as writer, autobiographer and architect
