Princess Rym Ali married to Prince Ali bin Al Hussein September 7, 2004. She is the daughter of Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi is a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law...

, former Algerian Minister for Foreign Affairs and senior UN official. She was raised in Great Britain and Algeria. She was educated in France and the United States.

She and Prince Ali live in Amman with their two children Princess Jalila and Prince Abdullah.

Education

• BA in geography and an MA in English literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris - graduated with honors in 1990
• MPhil in political science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1991
• PhD course certificates in political science and international affairs at the Political Science Institute in Paris in 1993
• Masters Degree at Graduate School of Journalism, concentrating on international reporting - Columbia University
  Columbia University
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   in 1994

Career

Earlier in her career she worked at United Nations Bureaus of the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

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, the United Press International

United Press International

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, Dubai TV, Bloomberg

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 International, Radio Monte Carlo Moyen Orient and CNN

CNN

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 (London).

She has been the Executive Commissioner of the Royal Film Commission of Jordan

Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...

since 2006.

She is the founder of the Jordan Media Institute (JMI) http://www.jmi.edu.jo/en, a non-profit body whose aim is to establish an Arab Center of Excellence for Journalism Education with a Masters’ programme at its core.

Awards

Princess Rym Ali received a prestigious Award from the Columbia University School of Journalism in April 2011. The Alumni Awards are presented annually for a distinguished journalism career, or an outstanding journalistic achievement or a notable contribution to journalism education.

In July 2011, she has also been awarded the “Best International Journalist” prize at the 32nd Ischia International Journalism Awards Ceremony, one of the most prestigious journalistic awards in Italy.

On September 20, 2011, Princess Rym Ali was decorated with French Knight of the Legion of Honor by French Ambassador to Jordan.