Prince Hashim
bin Hussein (born 10 June 1981) is the younger of the two
sons of King
Hussein and Queen
Noor. In her
autobiography, Queen Noor states that Hashim was named after the clan of Hashim
(Banu Hashim), a
tribe to which the Islamic prophet Muhammad and
King Hussein belong. He is in the line of succession to the Jordanian throne.
EDUCATION
Prince Hashim was born on 10 June 1981.[1] He received his elementary education in Amman at the Amman Baccalaureate
School and then attended the schools of St. Mark's and Fay
School in the United States.
He later graduated from Maret School in
Washington, D.C in 1999. Prince
Hashim went to the Royal
Military Academy Sandhurst in 2000.
He was awarded the Prince
Saud Bin Abdullah Prize, presented to the cadet with the highest aggregate
mark.
After graduating from the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he
attended Duke University, later
transferring to Georgetown University.
In August 2005, the prince obtained an undergraduate degree in Comparative
Studies from Georgetown University's Edmund
A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He later graduated in Koran studies at Balqa
Applied University in Jordan on 5 September 2006. While serving as
a Captain in the Jordanian
Armed Forces 3rd Royal Ranger Battalion, the prince attended
several military and security courses.
His Mother Queen Noor
Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Najeeb Halaby (born 1915) and Doris Carlquist (born
1918) of Swedish descent. Her father was an aviator, airline executive, and
government official. He served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense in
the Truman administration, before being appointed
byJohn F. Kennedy to head the Federal
Aviation Administration. Najeeb Halaby also had a private-sector
career, serving as CEO of Pan American
World Airways from
1969 to 1972. The Halabys had two children following Lisa; a son, Christian,
and a younger daughter, Alexa. They divorced in 1977. Doris C. Halaby died on
December 25, 2015 age 97.[2]
Queen Noor’s ANCESTERY
Father
Najeeb Halaby was born in Dallas, Texas.[1] Married Doris Carlquist, His father
was Najeeb Elias Halaby, Sr. (March 17, 1878/1880 - December 16, 1928), a Syrian Christian,[2] who immigrated to the United States from Syria in 1891.[2] Halaby's paternal grandfather was
Elias Halaby, provincial treasurer or magistrate in Ottoman Syria,[2] who also came to the U.S. in 1891.
Halaby's father worked as an importer and, later, as an oil broker. In the
mid-1920s, Halaby's father opened Halaby Galleries, a rug boutique and
interior-decorating shop, at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, and ran
it with his wife, the former Laura Wilkins (April 23, 1889 - April 1987). He
died shortly afterward, and his estate was unable to continue the new
enterprise. Following his father's death, his mother married Urban B. Koen, but
they ultimately divorced. Halaby's maternal grandfather was John Thomas
Wilkins, who served in the 7th Tennessee
Cavalry during the Civil War.
Mother
Doris Carlquist was born Sept. 9, 1918,
in Leavenworth, Wash., where her father was mayor. As a child, she moved with
her family to Anchorage, decades before Alaska became a state.
GRANDPARENTS
Noor's paternal grandfather, Najeeb
Elias Halaby, a Syrian immigrant, was a petroleum broker, according to 1920 Census records.[3] Merchant Stanley Marcus, however, recalled that in the
mid-1920s, Halaby opened Halaby Galleries, a rug boutique and
interior-decorating shop, at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas,
and ran it with his Texas-born wife, Laura Wilkins (1889–1987, later Mrs. Urban
B. Koen). Najeeb Halaby died shortly afterward, and his estate was unable to
continue the new enterprise.[4]
