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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

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Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Cover from the paperback version of the book
AuthorQueen Noor of Jordan
LanguageEnglish
SubjectQueen Noor of Jordan, King Hussein of Jordan and the Middle East
GenreBiography
PublisherMiramax Books
Publication date
2003
ISBN978-0786867172
OCLC700303086
956.9504/4/092 B 22
LC ClassDS154.52.N87 A3 2003a

Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life (2003) is a book written by Queen Noor of Jordan, wife of the late Jordanian King Hussein I. Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Leap of Faith highlights Queen Noor's views on Islam and the West; the challenges of rearing her family; her work as Queen and humanitarian activist; and her struggles to protect her husband as he slipped into the illness that would kill him in 1999. Her story is filled with recollections of the world's most powerful and interesting people: Queen Elizabeth, Jimmy Carter, Pierre Trudeau, Ted Turner, Sean Connery, Richard Branson, Yassar Arafat and Anwar Sadat. She wrote this story after his death, describing her own life before and during their marriage, describing most of the political crisis he went through, including Black September.

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