Portal:Jordan/Selected biography

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Portal:Jordan/Selected biography/1 Stephanie Al-Naber (born 27 October 1988) is a Jordanian footballer and as of 2019 the captain of the Jordan women's national football team who plays as a midfielder. Al-Naber grew up playing with Shabab Al-Ordon, one of the first football clubs to start a women's team, and captained the Jordan team when they hosted the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.

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Abdullah el-Tell

Abdullah el-Tell, (Arabic: عبدالله التل, 1918 – 1973) served in the Transjordanian Arab Legion during the 1948 war in Palestine rising from the rank of company commander to become Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem. He was later accused of being involved in the assassination of King Abdullah I and spent many years in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967.

El-Tell was born into a wealthy family in Irbid just as the Ottoman army were retreating from the town. His mother held him up to the window to witness the soldiers leaving. His secondary education was in Egypt. When he was 18 years old he was jailed for demonstrating against the British.

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Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein was the ruler of Jordan and its predecessor state, Transjordan, from 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was Emir of Transjordan from 21 April 1921 to 25 May 1946 under a British mandate, and was king of an independent nation from 25 May 1946 until his assassination. According to Abdullah, he was a 38th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad as he belongs to the Hashemite family.

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His Majesty late King Hussein Bin Talal was the third king of Jordan and ruled the country from 11 August, 1952 until his death on February 7, 1999. At the time of his passing, the king was the longest serving executive head of state in the world. King Hussein is seen as the father of modern Jordan, with conditions rapidly improving throughout his reign as he modernized the country; UNICEF statistics, for example, show that between 1981 and 1991, Jordan achieved the world’s fastest annual rate of decline in infant mortality - from 70 deaths per 1000 births in 1981 to 37 per 1000 in 1991, a fall of over 47%.

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King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein.(Arabic: الملك عبدالله الثاني ابن الحسين),

King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He became king of Jordan on February 7th,1999 after the passing of his father King Hussein. King Abdullah is part of the Hashemite family and is reportedly the 43rd-generation direct descendant of prophet Muhammad. Abdullah's parents were King Hussein and Princess Muna al-Hussein, born Antoinette (Toni) Avril Gardiner.

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Princess Haya bint Hussein is the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife, Queen Alia. An accomplished equestrian, Hussein was the flag bearer for the Jordanian Olympic team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and also served two terms as the head of the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). She is married to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.

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