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Princess Aisha bint Hussein
Born (1968-04-23) 23 April 1968 (age 56)
Amman, Jordan
SpouseZeid Saadedine Juma
(m. 1990; div. ?)
Ashraf Banayoti[note 1]
(m. 2016; div. 2016)
IssueAoun Juma
Muna Juma
HouseHashemite
FatherHussein of Jordan
MotherMuna Al-Hussein
Jordanian royal family
List
Extended royal family
Noor and others
Queen Noor
Haya and others
Muna and others
Princess Muna
Alia
Firyal and others
Hassan and others
Basma
Nayef and others

Princess Aisha bint Hussein (born 23 April 1968) is the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan and is the twin sister of Princess Zein. Her parents are Princess Muna al-Hussein and King Hussein.

Education

Aisha was born in Amman, Jordan. She was educated up to age eight in Jordan, at the American community school (In the same class as her sister Zein, for all or almost all of the time). She moved to the U.S. to pursue her education for ten years. She attended Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD, through the 8th grade. She graduated from Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1986. She then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom, completing the officer’s training course in 1987.[1] She then completed an undergraduate degree in Modern Middle East History and Politics from Pembroke College, Oxford. In June 2010 she completed her Masters of Arts degree in Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), at the National Defense University, Washington D.C., USA.[citation needed]

Professional life

Hussein is a major general in the Jordanian military and became the first female in the Middle East to receive her parachutist wings after completing five military parachute jumps, according to her official biography.

She successfully completed her officers’ training course at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in the United Kingdom in April 1987, following her arrival as the first Middle East woman to attend the academy. After graduation from Sandhurst, the princess served in Jordan’s special forces and completed several additional parachuting courses.

Since 1996, she has taken part in several conferences by the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women. She is a member of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue and serves as a Jordanian expert in the internationally staffed NATO Human Factors and Medicine Research Task Group 140, on psychological, organizational and cultural aspects of terrorism, in all matters military and civilian.

She successfully completed numerous military courses, including Security and Protection with the Jordanian Royal Guards, Senior International Defense Management from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School at the Defense Resources Management Institute in Monterey, California. She has also completed an open water diving course at the Scuba Schools International in New Jersey. She travels abroad frequently to further enhance her knowledge of military-related issues, particularly the role of women in the military.[2]

She is currently assigned as the defense attaché with the Jordanian embassy to the United States.[2]

Private life

In 1990, Aisha married Zeid Saadedine Juma in Amman, the couple later divorced. She currently resides in the United States of America and has a son Aoun Juma, born on May 27, 1992 and a younger daughter, Muna Juma born on July 18, 1996. Aoun Juma has attended the London campus of Coventry University[citation needed] and is expected to study at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.[1]

On January 27, 2016, Princess Aisha married Ashraf Banayoti (nee Edward Banayoti)[note 1].[3] Edward Banayoti took the Muslim name Ashraf Banayoti when he converted to Islam.[4] Princess Aisha and Ashraf Banayoti divorced in 2016, according to the Royal Hashemite Court.[5]

Titles, styles and honours

Honours

National honours

Foreign honours

Ancestry

Family of Princess Aisha bint Hussein
16. Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca
8. Abdullah I of Jordan
17. Abdiya bint Abdullah
4. Talal of Jordan
18. Amir Nasser Pasha, Sharif of Mecca
9. Musbah bint Nasser
19. Dilber Khanum
2. Hussein of Jordan
20. Amir Nasser Pasha, Sharif of Mecca (= 18)
10. Jamal 'Ali bin Nasser, Sharif of Mecca, Governor of Hauran
21. Dilber Khanum (= 19)
5. Zein al-Sharaf
22. Shakir Pasha, Governor of Cyprus
11. Wijdan Shakir Pasha
1. Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein
24. John Gardiner
12. Arthur Gardiner
25. Esther Scarph
6. Walter Percy Gardiner
26. Daniel Tovell
13. Mabel Jane Tovell
27. Ada Alberta King
3. Antoinette Avril Gardiner
28. Josiah Sutton
14. Arthur Sutton
29. Elizabeth Able
7. Doris Elizabeth Sutton
30. Augustus Alderton
15. Dora Elizabeth Alderton
31. Gertrude Ruth Green

Notes

  1. ^ a b Surname spelling validated at VRTS ticket # 2016042710012908 with copies of official documents, it was reported incorrectly in jordantimes.com

References

  1. ^ a b http://www.purepeople.com/article/aisha-de-jordanie-a-47-ans-la-princesse-s-est-remariee_a171590/1
  2. ^ a b "Muslims must fight extremists' ideology, Jordanian princess says". TBO.com. 25 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Princess Aisha marries Ashraf Banayotti". Jordan Times.
  4. ^ Jordan Times
  5. ^ "Princess Aisha, Edward Banayoti divorced". Jordan Times. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g imageupper.com, Princess Aisha wearing most of her Jordanian decorations and Italian Order
  7. ^ a b purepeople.com, Princess Aisha wearing the Star of the Order of the Renaissance and Order of Merit of Brunei
  8. ^ a b c d e f imageupper.com, Princess Aisha wearing her lesser honours and medals
  9. ^ a b c d jordanembassyus.org, some of Princess Aisha's honours listed
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