Queen Noor chats with local women at the Dana nature reserve, who have been trained in jewelry production.

The Noor Al Hussein Foundation's Jordan Design and Trade Center (JDTC) buys and markets jewelry manufactured in Dana using indigenous semi precious stones.

Queen Noor during her regular inspection visits to schools in underprivileged areas.

The Queen's Student Relief Fund (Al-'Ilm Noor Fund) identifies and provides the country's most needy students with fees and supplies required to attend school.

Queen Noor visiting a boy's elementary school in Tafileh in the south of Jordan, where Al-'Ilm Noor Fund (Knowledge is Light / Enlightenment) launched its campaign in 1996.

Queen Noor at the Roman city of Jerash, where she founded the annual international Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts in 1981.

The Festival is the first of its kind to have two fully functioning Roman theaters: the North Theater (the Odeum) and the South Theater (seen left).

Queen Noor in front of the Nymphaeum, which was one of the most lavish of all the civic amenities in ancient Gerasa (Jerash). It was completed circa AD 190.

In purpose, a Nymphaeum was a public water fountain, but the one at Jerash, although comparatively small, was one of the most elaborately ornamented.

Queen Noor and her son Prince Hashim at the opening of the annual Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts, 21 July  1999.