The Sandwich Swap

(Office of Her Majesty - Press department- New York) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met, today, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, where they discussed the United Nations new efforts to finance global education and ensure the 72 million children around the world denied an education, enroll in schools.

Also during the meeting, Ban Ki Moon lauded Her Majesty for her efforts to improve global education, especially co-chairing 1GOAL, and her constant support for UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), and UNICEF.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Amman) – Her Majesty Queen Rania paid a visit to the Zaha Cultural Center in Amman today. During the visit, Her Majesty read excerpts to the children, from Her New York Times’ best-seller children’s picture book “the Sandwich Swap”, titled “Salma & Lily” in Arabic in the center’s library.

After “story time”, Her Majesty distributed copies of Salma & Lily to the children, who were ecstatic to see and hear Her Majesty reading the story to them.

Oprah Winfrey (OW): Yes we are live, thank you, live in Chicago. So like, like so many of you she’s a working mother, she does car pool, and is known to make a mean chocolate chip cookie. But she also lives in a gorgeous palace, and is referred to as Her Majesty. Queen Rania of Jordan is one of the most intriguing and beautiful women on the planet. Take a look. She’s a modern monarch on a mission....

HMQ: If you educate a girl, you educate the future.

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Barbara Walters (BW): Our next guest is a children’s author, who car pools, and who bakes cookies, and tweets. By the way she also happens to be royalty. It is our pleasure and honour to welcome Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan. Also with respects to other Queens the most beautiful.

HMQ: Oh thank you. That’s very kind of you Barbara.

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Robin Roberts (RR): Now a visit from Queen Rania of Jordan. She’s one of the world’s most powerful women but she’s also a wife, a devoted mother of four, tireless advocate for education all around the world, and she is here this morning to engage in some peanut butter diplomacy by telling us about her new children’s book. It is wonderful. It is called The Sandwich Swap. And it’s wonderful Your Majesty to have you here back with us..

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department- Amman) – Queen Rania of Jordan launched “Lily and Salma” this week, the Arabic edition of Her Majesty’s children’s picture book “the Sandwich Swap”.

During a visit to the Zaha Cultural Center in Amman today, Her Majesty read excerpts of the New York Times best-seller to the children who gathered in the center’s library.

Following the book reading Her Majesty distributed copies of Salma & Lily to the children, who were ecstatic to see and hear Her Majesty reading the story to them.

(Office of Her Majesty- Press Department- Amman) According to the New York Times weekly book review, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah's book, "The Sandwich Swap", is the number one bestselling children's picture book in the United States.

Her Majesty, who has recently come back from a book tour, promotes the values of understanding and compassion through the story of Lily And Salma, two friends from two different backgrounds, who, after swapping peanut butter and hummus sandwiches, find out that they have more things in common than different.

(Office of Her Majesty- Press Department- Chicago) In line with Her Majesty's efforts to promote cross cultural understanding and bridge the divide between East and West, Queen Rania Al Abdullah visited the Highlands Elementary School, in Chicago, where she read her recently written children's book, "The Sandwich Swap".