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(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department, Amman) Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah attended today the closing session of the two day regional workshop on the Post-2015 Development Priorities for the Arab World, and urged for such important gatherings to be held annually.

"The results of these sessions and the unified vision we come to should be formulated in a way that encourages countries and all their components to adopt them," Queen Rania told the attendees who included leaders from civil society, academic institutions and research institutes from various Arab countries.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department, Amman) – Under the patronage and attendance of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, a group of leaders from civil society, research institutes and academia from Arab countries started today in Amman a two-day regional workshop on the Post-2015 Development Priorities for the Arab world.

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Amman) - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Honorary Chair of the E4E initiative, took part in the international launch ceremony of the Education for Employment (E4E) Initiative: Youth in the Arab World Report. The IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Islamic Development Bank released the report today calling for urgent action to tackle the unemployment challenges faced by Arab youth.

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Thank you, Alex, for those kind words…

And thank you all for coming together today… whether here in Amman, Rabat, Cairo, or Washington.

Queen Rania of Jordan is seated behind an enormous desk in her office in Amman with three cameras trained on her.

Two of them are ours, the third belongs to her staff, who are about to film the latest edition for her personalised channel - or V-log - on the video-sharing website YouTube.

It is the seventh video she will have posted since she made her online debut in March. Speaking in English, she asks people to suggest stereotypes they have heard about the Arab world so she could "break them down one by one".

(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 – Dubai) - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah joined leading journalists and media executives from around the world at the Fourth Conference of the Arab Thought in Dubai, on Monday, affirming her confidence in the key role of the media in the region.

(Office of Her Majesty, Press Department - Amman) Posting her second response to the YouTube community on stereotypes facing Arab and Muslim communities, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah is speaking out on honor crimes and violence against women.

Many of the stereotypes received on the Queen’s YouTube channel have focused on women’s empowerment issues. Specifically, many YouTubers raised the issues of domestic violence and honor crimes coming out of the region.