英語名人堂：拉尼亞·阿卜杜拉

父母是在20世紀(jì)60年代從約旦河西岸移居到科威特的巴勒斯坦人。當(dāng)醫(yī)生的父親為三個(gè)孩子提供了接受西方教育的機(jī)會(huì)，但也向他們灌輸阿拉伯世界的一些傳統(tǒng)思想。在這個(gè)開明的中產(chǎn)階級(jí)家庭里，拉尼亞得到自由成長的空間。

1991年拉尼亞一家移居到約旦首都安曼，同年她在埃及開羅的美利堅(jiān)大學(xué)拿到商業(yè)管理學(xué)位，畢業(yè)后，她回到約旦，先后任職于西鐵銀行和蘋果電腦公司。

1991年，她在蘋果電腦公司安曼分公司找到了一份工作。

1993年，在阿卜杜拉的姐姐舉辦的一次招待晚宴上，她邂逅了當(dāng)時(shí)的約旦王子阿卜杜拉。他們一見鐘情，并在當(dāng)年的6月份結(jié)為百年之好。

1999年，阿卜杜拉出乎意料繼承王位(原本王儲(chǔ)是他的叔叔)，拉尼亞成為全球最年輕的王后。

Jordan’s Queen Rania is a very modern monarch. She has worked for companies like Citibank and Apple Computer and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She also uses YouTube to help people around the world understand more about the Arab world. She became a Jordanian royal after marrying King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein in June 1993, six months after they met.

She was born as Rania Al-Yassin in Kuwait in 1970. Her parents were Palestinian. She graduated from the American University in Cairo with a degree in Business Administration. She is frequently in the Forbes magazine list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Being an honorarycolonel of the Jordanian Armed Forces might help keep her there.

Queen Rania is famous around the world for her charity work. She fights for education reform and better school facilities for poor children. She is a strong believer in the need for compulsory English language classes at schools. She is involved with a great variety of organizations and campaigns for better vaccines, cancer research, family safety and many more worthy causes.

Harpers & Queen magazine named her the world’s third most beautiful woman in 2005. She is a very strong supporter of women’s rights. She tours the world talking about women’s issues at international conferences. In particular, she speaks about people’s misunderstandings about women's role in Islam. She inspires women around the world and works to improve their lives.