Queen Rania Ventures into Social Networking

Queen Rania of Jordan recently linked up to the Twitter website to discuss the issue of education and tweet about some of the latest things that had occurred in her engagement diary. Now, she is taking Facebook by storm and encouraging dialogue on social change, education and cross-cultural issues.

Besides making inroads into the social networking community, she began her quest for dialogue to disseminate stereotypes on her YouTube channel two years ago. The queen shared her YouTube channel dialogue success in a NPR interview last month and said, “YouTube was an incredible platform for me to be able to interact and to hear the points of view unedited, unfiltered, you know, to just see - to get the real information…the idea was to create the debate. And people did talk. They did bring out a lot of issues. There was a lot of discussion, and there were a lot of friendships forged. And a lot of these stereotypes were exposed. And it's not until you really interact with the side, where you try to see things from their eyes that you start to empathize and understand.”

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Queen Rania Joins Twitter Ranks

Queen Rania of Jordan continues her quest to connect and encourage dialogue amongst the internet community by interfacing on the Twitter website this week. As she disseminates the stereotypes on her YouTube channel, she steers the conversation on Twitter to focus on the Global Campaign for Education with the desire “to get every child an education.”

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Queen Rania Thanks YouTubers for Dialogue

Five months ago, Queen Rania of Jordan began a dialogue on YouTube to promote global cultural awareness and dissolve the myths and stereotypes surrounding her Middle Eastern culture. Today, the queen thanked YouTubers who sent in videos and posted comments on her channel in an ambitious effort to dispel stereotypes.

Below is Queen Rania’s YouTube video: Queen Rania special message to YouTubers.

Queen Rania Encourages Dialogue Amongst YouTubers

Queen Rania of Jordan wants your stereotypes. Today, she initiated on YouTube an exclusive video to encourage dialogue amongst the YouTuber community and dispel common misconceptions of the Middle East. The queen expressed her desire to oppugn stereotypes and said, “in a world where it’s so easy to connect to one another, we still remain very much disconnected. There’s a whole world of wonder out there that we cannot appreciate with stereotypes…I want people to know the real Arab world – to see it unedited, unscripted and unfiltered – to see the personal side of my region – to know the places and faces and rituals and culture that shape the part of the world I call home.” YouTube’s community will be permitted to exchange comments concerning stereotypes until International Youth Day on August 12th. The queen’s goal is to dissolve the myths surrounding her culture and promote global cultural awareness without stereotypes.

Below is Queen Rania’s YouTube Exclusive: Send Me Your Stereotypes.



For more information on Queen Rania’s YouTube initiative, visit her official YouTube website.

Queen Noor’s Quest To Controvert Stereotypes

Queen Noor of Jordan attended the First Forum in Madrid presented by the Alliance of Civilizations on Tuesday. Furthermore, she launched the Alliance of Civilizations Media Fund that would oppugn stereotypes which were “reinforced by popular culture and the media.” The fund’s objective would be to “support the production and distribution of films that entertain as well as enlighten” and “that will enhance the connections that already exist between different societies, but are seldom noted on screen and in popular culture.” The queen expostulated that stereotypes “can set the emotional and political stage for policies that result in chronic misunderstanding.”

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