Queen Noor's Memoirs, an Inspiration

"Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life", is the story of Queen Noor's life, formerly known as Lisa Najeeb Halaby, and it was written from her perspective. This book is absolutely brilliant, to say the least, because it gave you insight on the circumstances that led to her and King Hussein's meet, and then their very eventful life and the struggles that they had to go through together. She sheds some light at the place where Jordan stands in this Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which is more like an Arab-Israeli conflict. So I will outline this book very briefly.
Lisa Najeeb Halaby graduated with a degree in Architecture and went of to Iran and then to Jordan, to complete the Intercontinental Airport which will serve as a hub to the new Royal Jordanian Airlines. She meets King Hussein there, because he and her father had close business ties. A friendship forms, and then they both fall deeply in love with each other. Lisa admires King Hussein in everything he does, and his willingness to achieve the impossible. Soon after, King Hussein proposes to Lisa, and there begins the long life ahead. Lisa takes the decision by herself to convert to Islam, because she found the religion very logical and pure and it gave her ease of mind. Upon her conversion, her name was changed from Lisa, to Noor, which means light in Arabic, Noor al Hussein or the Light of Hussein.
Her life with King Hussein was a happy and honest one. They both worked very hard. Queen Noor immediately adjusted and loved the Jordanian people. She knew she had to accomplish many things in this country, so that it can become more advanced and appear on the world stage. Many of her accomplishments included the creation of the Annual Jerash Festival, the work for the Bedouin women, many projects in the refugee camps, campaigns against land mines, and many more.
The book inspired me so much, because this woman was so devoted to her husband, and attached to him. She gave him her whole life, and that was proved when he became very ill, and then diagnosed with cancer. She was strong, and gave him hope, and light. She took care of all her step children, and had four of her own children from the King. Queen Noor believed in peace. Her approach to politics was that any military action will not yield any results, but political action is what ought to be done. Also, one of King Hussein's sayings, that is a favorite of mine is that "A peace-treaty is not a piece of paper, that is signed between countries, governments to ensure it's economic growth or stability, but it is a pact between people, and the people have to feel it, and live it to make real peace." (And I was just paraphrasing).
I admired King Hussein's ways of peace. He always wanted to make peace with Israel, but also wanted to form a Palestinian state in peace, and I believe that is the exact way to go about these things. Violence will not solve anything, deaths of innocent children will not earn the security of the killers. King Hussein hoped that the Arabs can come to peace with Israel and that a Palestinian state can be created, but he never lived to see that dream come true, yet I hope that I do see this in the future.