Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen NoorMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Having recently read Becoming by Michelle Obama may have influenced, in a small way, how I felt about this book. It was such a contrast to the other book, although there were many similarities to the women themselves.
Queen Noor, born Lisa Halaby, is a graduate of the first coed class at Princeton, and the daughter of an aviation executive. She was working in the airlines industry when she became friends with King Hussein, an avid aviator himself. They fell in love, and soon married, she becoming his 3rd wife and stepmother to his three children, and eventual mother to four more.
During their twenty year marriage, she developed many humanitarian programs to better the life of women and worked side by side with her husband to promote peace in the middle east. She devoted her life to being a helpmate to the king, while still having her own identity.
I particularly enjoyed seeing a different perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict, knowing that each story has multiple sides. Queen Noor seems like a generous, gracious woman, who didn't come across as whiny at all, and served her country and the world for many years.
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