Word: noor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missteps and Hussein's obsession with his legacy put Abdullah in charge. In 1992, as the King recuperated from his first bout with cancer, he returned home ready to abdicate. Buoyed by a hero's welcome and upset by a slanderous whispering campaign against his American-born wife Queen Noor, for which he held Hassan's court responsible, he changed his mind...
...succeed Hassan. He was furious when Hassan said the matter should wait until he became King, leaving the door open to name his son Rashid. Just before Hussein was found to have cancer again last year, the King signaled that he favored Hamzah, 18, the eldest son of Queen Noor, to become second in line...
Then, undergoing treatment in the U.S. for the past six months, Hussein was stung by reports of intrigue and ambition back home. Princess Sarvath, Hassan's wife, was moving furniture around the palace. The King also seemed to blame her, palace sources say, for more rumors smearing Noor, like the tale that Noor was a Jew, even a relative of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "When my fever was getting high," Hussein later said, "some people thought it was their chance...
...both Israelis and Palestinians, but Hussein's life had always been about straddling different worlds. He was at once the beloved monarch of the nomadic Bedouin tribesmen and the cosmopolitan statesman trained in British military academies who loved flying his own plane and was married to an American -- Queen Noor, formerly Lisa Halaby. (She was his fourth wife: A youthful marriage to a Palestinian woman ended in divorce, as did his union with Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British Army officer and mother of his heir, Crown Prince Abdullah; a third bride, the Palestinian Queen Alia, was tragically killed...
...allegedly errant females. Women have endured the custom, while legal establishments have tolerated or even condoned it. But now activists in Jordan, backed by the royal family, are dragging the issue out of the darkness. "We are determined to be an example in our part of the world," Queen Noor told CNN's Christiane Amanpour last week in an interview for NewsStand: CNN & TIME...