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	Najeeb Halaby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Najeeb Halaby (Arabic: نجيب إلياس حلبي‎; September 19, 1915-July 2, 2003) was a U.S. businessman, government official, and the father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
		Halaby was born in Dallas, Texas to Najeeb Elias Halaby, a Syrian-born immigrant of Lebanese descent, and Laura Wilkins Halaby, a native of Graham, Texas.
		Najeeb Halaby, longtime university supporter and volunteer, dies at 87
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Najeeb_Halaby (274 words)

	Queen Noor of Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby a daughter of Najeeb Halaby, a former CEO of Pan-American World Airways, one time head of the Federal Aviation Administration, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and his first wife, Doris Carlquist.
		She has a younger brother, Christian Halaby, a composer and guitarist, and a younger sister, Alexa Halaby (a University of Pennsylvania squash champion who was a bridesmaid at the 1986 wedding of Maria Owings Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger).
		She was born in Washington, D.C. Queen Noor's paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby, a Syrian immigrant of Lebanese descent, was an oil broker, according to 1920 census records.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lisa_Halaby (476 words)

	Noor of Jordan
		An American of Arab, Swedish, Scottish, and English descent, the former Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby is a daughter of Najeeb Elias Halaby[?] (1915-2003), a former CEO of Pan-American World Airways, onetime head of the Federal Aviation Administration, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and his first wife, Doris Carlquist[?].
		Queen Noor's paternal grandfather, Najeeb Elias Halaby[?] (1878-1928), a Syrian immigrant of Lebanese descent, was an oil broker, according to 1920 census records.
		Lisa Halaby was raised and educated in the United States, graduating from Princeton University in 1974.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/no/Noor_of_Jordan.html (271 words)

	Welcome to the Lone Star Flight Museum!
		Najeeb Elias Halaby is one of America's pioneer pilots of the jet age.
		Halaby was one of the first pilots to flight-test American Airlines' first operational jet airplane, the Bell YP-59 Airacomet, and made the first continuous transcontinental jet-powered flight in a Lockheed YP-80 Shooting Star.
		Halaby was born in Dallas, Texas in 1916.
	www.lsfm.org /Bios/najeeb_halaby.html (201 words)

	AUB Bulletin Today - July 2003
		The statement called Halaby a brilliant and distinguished international figure, who was at the helm of the BOT during the worst years of the conflict in Lebanon, and said he made use of his international relations and connections to try and protect AUB during the war.
		Najeeb Halaby was born in Dallas on November 19, 1915, the only child of a Syrian American father and an American mother who was a native of Texas.
		Halaby was elected to the AUB BOT in 1973, then chairman of the board in 1983, and trustee emeritus in November 1985.
	wwwlb.aub.edu.lb /~webbultn/v4n7/12.html (664 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Najeeb Halaby
		Najeeb Halaby, who has died aged 87, was a former chairman and chief executive of Pan Am and a close associate of President John F Kennedy; Halaby became better known as the father of Queen Noor of Jordan, fourth wife of the late King Hussein.
		Najeeb Elias Halaby, popularly known as "Jeeb", was born at Dallas, Texas, on September 19 1915.
		Halaby went on to study at Stanford, where he was captain of the golf team, and at Yale, where he studied Law.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2003/07/14/db1404.xml (633 words)

	Najeeb Halaby, longtime university supporter and volunteer, dies at 87
		Halaby was a longtime supporter of Stanford and held several volunteer positions at the university, most notably as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1971 to 1974 and of the visitors board of the Institute for International Studies (IIS) from 1994 to 2003.
		Halaby graduated from Stanford in 1937 with a bachelor's degree in political science.
		Halaby also served as chairman of the American University in Beirut and on the boards of many other organizations, including the King Hussein Foundation, the Jordan Society, the Hariri Foundation, the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies and the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Research Institute.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2003/july9/obithalaby-79.html (641 words)

	Personality
		Halaby first came to public prominence in 1961 as Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), a post to which he was appointed by President Kennedy.
		Halaby served first as a foreign affairs advisor to the Secretary of Defense and then as a deputy assistant secretary of defense, where he organized the present office of International Security Affairs.
		Najeeb Halaby's overwhelming interest at this time is to assure the continuation of a healthy American University of Beirut, whose next to last president, Malcolm Kerr, was assassinated in 1984, and whose acting president before that, David Dodge, was kidnapped in 1982 and held incommunicado for one year.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/022585/850225007.html (752 words)

	Blog of Death: Najeeb Halaby
		Halaby graduated from Stanford University and Yale University law school.
		When President John F. Kennedy appointed Halaby to the FAA in 1961, he decentralized its authority and helped create the FAA Flight Academy in Oklahoma City.
		While he was credited with expanding the airline's Inter-Continental Hotel chain, he also oversaw the purchase of an expensive new fleet of Boeing 747s, a move that indebted the company for years.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000091.html (249 words)

	The Australian Lebanese Association of Queensland Inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Halaby worked in the United States Department of Defence in the 1950s and was promoted to head the Federal Aeronautics Authority in the early 1960s.
		Halaby’s brilliance in aeronautics and marketing soon led him to Pan American Airways, a popular airline company that was the first to use the 747 jet, where he reigned as CEO for many years.
		Halaby is a devout humanitarian and has served as board chair for the Save The Children Foundation from 1992 to 1998.
	www.alaq.org.au /Biographys/prominent_international_lebanese/najjeb_halaby.htm (160 words)

	Aero Club of Washington Archived Speeches - Marion C. Blakey, November 28, 2005
		Halaby was a visionary, but that doesn't mean he didn't take practical matters into his own hands.
		Najeeb Halaby also faced a bit of an issue with something historians call “ ATC modernization.” The effort was called Project Beacon.
		Halaby's tenure that made me sit back and imagine what I'd do when the newspaper hit my desk: “Ex-Stewardesses Testify They Were Allowed to Take Controls in Airliners.” That's one that must have had Najeeb put his head in his hands.
	www.aeroclub.org /speeches/blakey_11_05.htm (1851 words)

	William J. Clinton Foundation "President Names Halaby to Library of Congress Trust Fund Board"
		Najeeb E. Halaby, of McLean, Virginia, has had a long and distinguished career, both in the public and private sector.
		Halaby is Chairman Emeritus of Save the Children Federation and was Chairman and CEO of The Wolf Trap Foundation.
		Halaby is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.
	www.clintonfoundation.org /legacy/081600-president-names-halaby-to-library-of-congress-trust-fund-board.htm (335 words)

	National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
		Though Halaby, known as Jeeb, had a long and distinguished career in business and government, he was best known in his later years for his daughter Lisa's marriage to King Hussein of Jordan in 1978.
		Halaby secured the election of the first minority director to an airline board and insisted on equal opportunity for Hispanic and African Americans.
		Halaby was born Sept. 19, 1915 and lived in McLean and Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
	www.arrangeonline.com /notablePersons/notable.asp?obituaryid=67866148 (571 words)

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		Halaby, a brilliant and distinguished international figure who was appointed an AUB trustee in 1973, became chairman of the board in 1983, during the height of the civil conflict in Lebanon, when he used his international connections to help the University survive one of the most trying periods in its history.
		Najeeb Halaby is survived by his wife Libby Cater, his son Christian, and his daughters Alexa and Lisa.
		In commenting on Halaby’s service to AUB, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Richard A. Debs said, “We are greatly indebted to Jeeb for his inspired leadership of the University during the gravest years of the war in Lebanon.
	wwwlb.aub.edu.lb /~webmgate/summer03/in_memoriam.html (2059 words)

	Najeeb Halaby: A Remarkable Life Remembered
		In 1965 Halaby, often called Jeeb, became senior vice president at Pan Am and eventually rose to the ranks of CEO and Chairman of the company.
		Halaby secured the election of the first minority director to an airline board and insisted on equal opportunity for Hispanic and African Americans in the workplace.
		Halaby is survived by three children from his marriage to Doris Carlquist, Queen Noor, Christian, and Alexa and ten grandchildren.
	www.jordanembassyus.org /new/jib/pr/prnh07082003.htm (537 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
		My father, Najeeb Halaby, a former airline executive and head of the Federal Aviation Administration, was chairman of the International Advisory Board for the Jordanian airline.
		My Arab grandfather, Najeeb, and his older brother, Habib, were only twelve and fourteen when they had sailed steerage from Beirut to Ellis Island with their mother, Almas, and younger siblings.
		Darkly handsome, gallant, and exotic in socially conservative Dallas, Najeeb met and married interior decorator Laura Wilkins, the daughter of a local rancher, in 1914.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/leap_of_faith3.asp (13110 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Halaby
		In 1976, Lisa Halaby was on the tarmac of the Amman airport with her father when they spotted King Hussein and his queen.
		Ted Halaby, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, said Bush critics overlook the impact of Sept. 11, 2001, which...
		Najeeb Halaby, 87, former chief executive of Pan American World Airways, was father of Jordan's Queen Noor.
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Halaby.shtml (770 words)

	Queen Noor - Page 5 - The Royal Forums
		Najeeb E. Halaby, 87, a lawyer, Navy test pilot and venture capitalist who headed the Federal Aviation Administration and Pan American World Airways and was the father of a queen, died July 2 at his home in McLean.
		Halaby's three years as chief executive, the airline suffered financial problems as competition mounted and he was unable to secure domestic routes.
		Najeeb Elias Halaby was born in Dallas to a mother who was a native of Texas and an Arab American father.
	www.theroyalforums.com /forums/f83/queen-noor-509-5.html#post11050 (2190 words)

	Legends
		Najeeb Halaby’s fondest memory of his boyhood in Dallas was the day in 1927 when his father took him downtown to watch a ticker-tape celebration honoring Charles Lindbergh, the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
		In 1943, Navy Lt. Najeeb E. Halaby, a crack World War II test pilot, not only was one of the first to fly a jet aircraft but also took the YP-59 up to a record 46,900 feet.
		Princeton graduate Lisa Halaby, an architect-planner, was developing Amman Intercontinental Airport when she met King Hussein, a widower, in 1978.
	www.privateclubs.com /archives/2000-nov-dec/life_legends.htm (475 words)

	Jordan's Queen
		Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby in New York City in 1942 (Morris K1370).
		Prior to moving to her adopted homeland of Jordan, the future Queen of Jordan attended Princeton University, where she studied architecture and urban planning and was a cheerleader (Mitchell 1).
		Lisa Halaby and King Hussein discovered shared interests in boating, racing, and skiing, and were otherwise so compatible that only two months were necessary before the couple made their vows of holy matrimony (Matusky 96-97)>))).
	www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /History/MidEast/02/ander/ander.htm (1314 words)

	Official Website of Her Majesty Queen Noor - My Album
		Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on 23 August 1951
		Najeeb Halaby, an Arab-American pioneer, (right) with the late President John F. Kennedy, in whose administration he served
		Lisa Halaby entered Princeton University's first co-educational class and graduated with a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning in 1974.
	www.noor.gov.jo /my_album.htm (83 words)

	Vineyard Gazette - Obituaries
		Najeeb E. Halaby, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration, past president of Pan American Airlines, and the father of Queen Noor, wife of the late King Hussein of Jordan, died Wednesday at his home in McLean, Va., of congestive heart failure.
		Halaby, appointed to the FAA in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, was a prominent figure in government and society in Washington, D.C. He held federal jobs in both military security and foreign affairs.
		Halaby had a South Shore home off Jacob's Neck Road in Edgartown.
	mvgazette.com /features/obituaries/index.php?name=najeeb_halaby&... (153 words)

	audiobook reviews, author interviews and more.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the summer of 1976, an American named Lisa Halaby, age 26, was with her father on the tarmac at an airport in Amman, Jordan.
		But in less than two years, Lisa Halaby would convert to Islam, take the name “Noor” ("light" in Arabic) and marry Hussein, becoming Jordan's queen.
		Halaby knew much about the culture; her family was Arab American.
	www.audiobookcafe.com /FtrLst.cfm?FtrCatCod=3&Code=925 (792 words)

	Interior Design School - Comments made by people about Interior Design School
		He suffered from congestive heart failure and died Wednesday at his home in suburban McLean, Va. Though Halaby, known as Jeeb, had a long and distinguished career in business and government, he was best known in his later years for his daughter Lisa's marriage to King Hussein of Jordan in 1978.
		His daughter Lisa described him in her autobiography as "an oddity in WASP Washington" and recalled a quiz in a Washington newspaper that asked "What is a Najeeb Elias Halab: animal, vegetable or mineral?" In 1969, he began his stormy four-year tenure at Pan Am.
		Three months after they began dating, the king called Halaby and said, "Sir, I wish to ask you for the hand of your daughter in marriage." He also served on the board of a number of public institutions and chaired the Save the Children Federation, The Wolf Trap Foundation and the American University of Beirut.
	www.design-career.com /interior_design/interior_design_school/interior_design_school_msg61540/interior_design_school_msg61540.shtml (613 words)

	Article Title
		But her roots run deep in Dallas, and when she returned here this month to appear at the Hatton W. Sumners Lecture Series, it was something of a homecoming.
		The former Lisa Halaby, Her Majesty is the daughter of former Pan-Am Airlines chairman and CEO Najeeb Halaby, who was born in Dallas in 1915.
		Najeeb was appointed head of the Federal Aviation Administration by President John Kennedy.
	www.ncpa.org /abo/quarterly/20041st/clip/queenvisits.htm (253 words)

	Political scientist who inspired public service dies at 101
		"Tom Barclay was one of those great, early New Deal liberals imbedded in conservative Stanford" of the 1930s, said Najeeb Halaby, Class of '37, now of suburban Washington, D.C. "There are lots of others like me who really respected him, loved him and were motivated to public service by him, " Halaby said.
		Halaby said he went into private business but because of Barclay, public service has been an important focus of his life.
		Inspired by Barclay's teaching and enthusiasm for grass-roots politics, Marcus said she went to Washington after earning a master's degree from Stanford to work for the Democratic National Committee.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/94/940103Arc4526.html (678 words)

	Book Review: Untitled - Eileen Brennan
		Lisa Halaby was the Princeton-educated daughter of Najeeb Halaby and his wife, whose family background was Swedish and European.
		Halaby had a distinguished career in the aeronautical field, notably as president of Pan-American Airlines.
		Lisa met King Hussein while visiting her father, who was setting up Arab Air Services which provided aviation design, engineering and technical support to countries throughout the Middle East.
	www.antonnews.com /feature/2003/05/16/brennan (371 words)

	Federal Aviation Administration - Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I’ll be honest … a great deal of my time seems to be spent with issues that have popped up again and again.
		Najeeb Halaby also faced a bit of an issue with something historians call “ATC modernization.” The effort was called Project Beacon.
		As the newsreel popped up on the screen, a young Roger Mudd … a very young Roger Mudd … came on with that deep voice to describe the first American airport designed to handle supersonic traffic.
	www.faa.gov /news/speeches/news_story.cfm?contentKey=3097 (1825 words)

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