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Summary: An interesting, excellent book!
Review: This is a fascinating book that gives a lot of insight as to the current world events in Jordan and the middle east. It is well written and I thought it gave just enough insight into her personal life with the King to be interesting while still being professional. I found myself looking up places she referred to on the internet and reading more about many of the things she had to say.I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Ok if you don't mind all the hatred and anti-semitism
Review: Unreal that this woman can be such an unabashed anti-semite. Her revisionist history ignores every arab atrocity against Israel and the U.S. What a joke! Her husband, a paid CIA operative according to Jimmy Carter, comes off as a prince among men despite his hand in terrorism. All she does is complain about how unfairly the palestinians were treated despite the fact that her gloriously tiny husband waged a war against them and kicked them out of his country.
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Summary: Jordanian Diatribe
Review: I bought this book expecting a biography of a young, beautiful woman who had happened to marry into a royal family and the story thereof. Instead I found myself reading a diatribe against Israel, the United States and even Egypt for the accord that Anwar Sadat signed at Camp David. It's a good book if you're interested in a one sided view of Arab affairs versus the rest of the world, otherwise give it a miss.
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Summary: Super Arab Apologia
Review: It's unbelievable she was raised in the US. She seems to forget everything she was taught. This book is the most anti-semitic book I've read in a long time. Don't waste your time.
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Summary: A book that should be read
Review: This is a book that had to be written and should be read. It is clearly aimed at the average American audience because it outlines a prespective of the Middle East that U.S. readers have been deprived of. And it might perhaps partially answer the common question that has been frequently asked in America since 9/11: "Why do they hate us?" Queen Noor's book is written in simple form and is an easy read, whereby she touches upon her own personal experience as King Hussein's wife, step-mother to his many children, as mother, and of course, as the American queen of an Arab country. I found her private political discussions with her late husband as the most fascinating and she reveals, for the first time, some "inside information" throughout the various crises facing Jordan and the region. However, the queen was clearly careful in not revealing enough and many questions remained unanswered, be they political or personal, and sometimes jumps from one issue to the next without clarifying what happened next or how a certain problem was eventually resolved. She does not divulge details of her relationship with her older step-children, especially the now King Abdullah, her husband's eldest son who was suddenly named heir to the throne shortly before Hussein's death. She clearly did not want to ruffle any feathers through her cautious accounts -- after all, she is still officially a Jordanian queen -- but wanted to dedicate this book to portraying her husband's long search for peace in the Middle East. As for some of the reviews here, criticism of the book and writer as "anti-semitic" is ludicrous, and simply proves one of her points in the book on extremist Jews being "planted" to sabotage her message or any other Arab message meant to reach U.S. ears. Norma Khouri's review is even more ridiculous, accusing the queen of abandoning women's rights. Queen Noor, and many many other Jordanian women, has done a whole lot more for women's rights and their empowerment in this country than Khouri has ever even attempted to do. At least she did not fabricate an entire story in a piece of bad fiction full of factual errors and sell it as non-fiction. I highly recommend Queen Noor's Leap of Faith to every reader interested in this part of the world.
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Summary: Must read
Review: Queen Noor provides needed insight into the other side of the Mid-East.
Book is history and politics.
I don't think it should be compared as analogous to the Grace Kelly story - Noor's book is of interest not for its tabloid value but for her intelligence and articulation of a very delicate situation.
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Summary: Slouch of Bigotry
Review: If truth in advertising laws were enforced against publishers, "Queen" Noor's "Leap of Faith" would be re-titled "Slouch of Bigotry". According to Jordan's Noor, all was well in the Middle East between Jews, Christians and Moslems until Zionism and the state of Israel spoiled the party. Never mind that her country, not Israel, sits on 78% of the original Palestine Mandate, and that her country, not Israel, killed thousands of Palestinian Arabs in the 1970s when it expelled the PLO from its borders and forced thousands of Arabs into Judea and Samaria--the so-called "West Bank"--where they and their descendents remain to this day. Noor writes conspiratorially of Jewish control over the U.S. Congress and the media in words that would make a Klansman proud. This is anti-Semitism masquerading as memoir. She also claims that Israel struck "the first blow" in the Six Day War of 1967. Really? Egypt's Nasser massed troops on Israel's border and claimed he would "wipe Israel off the map" of the Middle East. That's an act of war; all Israel did was join the battle. Her own husband, the late King Hussein, helped lead a surprise attack against Israel on its holiest day of the year during the failed Yom Kippur War. Somehow that fact is overlooked in this whitewash of Arab Middle East history. Readers seeking a better understanding of the Middle East should consult the works of Bernard Lewis. Avoid this book like the plague against truth that it is.
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Summary: Where is the Map?
Review: I cannot believe that this book was published without a map!! Every page discusses areas of the Middle East. Most Americns have very little knowledge of geography generally much less the Middle East. Surely a map could have been included? I am enjoying the story.
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Summary: BETTER THAN I EXPECTED!!!
Review: THIS BOOK WAS GIVEN TO ME AS A GIFT. I BROUGHT IT WITH ME ON A BUSINESS TRIP AND I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. IT WAS AN EASY, WONDERFUL READ,AND VERY ENLIGHTENING. I WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE.
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Summary: Anti Semitic Crap
Review: I think our country should be ashamed at the number of people buying this book. This book is pure anti-semitic garbage. People from the liberal NEw York times to contributors to fox news agree. This is an extremely warped version of history and those of you who enjoy reading such racist dribble should be ashamed of themselves.
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