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Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan at the 2007 Skoll World Forum

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Queen Rania of Jordan speaks at the 2007 Skoll World Forum. She starts by talking about her husband’s love for Star Trek, then talks about social entrepreneurism, and the growing partnerships of private and public sectors. “Our post global society is not prospering,” she says. “It’s poverty stricken with a new kind of poverty. It’s plagued with multicultural knowledge, a poverty of multicultural tolerance, a poverty of multicultural respect. As a Muslim, as an Arab, as a mother, I am alarmed at the way in which the Muslim world and our Western counterparts are looking at each other with suspicion, fear, and prejudice — and turning away.”

Speakers

  • Queen consort of Jordan,
    Rania Al Abdullah (born Rania al Yassin on 31 August 1970) is the current Queen consort of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan. She has focused her energy, at home and abroad, on a variety of causes. In Jordan, her work concentrates on the calibre and quality of education for Jordanian children, while abroad she advocates for global education and for world leaders to fulfill their commitments towards the second Millennium Development Goal, Universal Primary Education.