stereotypes

The elegant Queen Rania of Jordan, champion of women's rights and anti-poverty activist, has taken her considerable influence online to challenge Western stereotypes about Islam and warn her own country's youth against extremism.

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – New York) - Their Majesties King Abdullah II and Queen Rania Al Abdullah were recognized by Seeds of Peace for their commitment to promoting world peace. 

As Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah accepted the award on their behalf, she asserted that, "It is time to drop the rhetoric of fear, and launch a conversation of the heart – one that builds on common values, as fellow citizens of an ever-shrinking world."

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Amman) - Using one of the most cyber-savvy platforms for dialogue, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah launched her presence on YouTube (www.YouTube.com/QueenRania) with an urgent message to the world’s young people, Monday, asking them to join in a global dialogue to recognize our commonalities. “In a world where it’s so easy to connect to one another, we still remain very much disconnected.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Accepting the first ever YouTube Visionary Award via taped message, Saturday, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah opted for a very non-traditional approach at explaining why she chose to create a channel aimed at breaking down stereotypes about the Arab and Muslim worlds on YouTube.

(Jordan Times - Amman) BBC programme highlights Queen’s YouTube channel successes
 
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Saturday aired a special programme on Her Majesty Queen Rania and her YouTube channel, which seeks to challenge and address misconceptions of the Arab and Muslim worlds.
 
The programme, titled, “Queen Rania: The YouTube Queen”, highlighted the Queen’s achievements and carried an interview with Her Majesty in which she expressed hope that her channel could serve as a means to communicate with people from across the world.
 

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Rhodes) "We have an important message to send (that is) our commitment to peace, tolerance, and equality, and our respect for diversity."

This was a message articulated by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah to several hundred people gathered in Rhodes, Greece at an exhibition organized by the Royal Society of Fine Arts in Jordan and Pan-Mediterranean Women Artists Network with the aim of using arts as a tool to break stereotypes of women in Islam.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) As the Axis of Evil comedy group returns to the Middle East for the third time this year, comedian Maz Jobrani has released some exclusive new material on Queen Rania’s YouTube channel to support the battle against stereotypes.