Queen Zein al-Sharaf

زين الشرف بنت جميل (Known as "The Queen Mother")

Queen of Jordan, Queen Mother, Humanitarian Pioneer

Born 2 August 1916

Cairo, Egypt

Passed Away 26 April 1994 Lausanne, Switzerland

Lifespan 77 years old

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"A nation's greatness is judged by how it protects the orphan, comforts the refugee, and empowers its women to lead."

Archival Overview

Beloved Queen Mother of Jordan, wife of King Talal and mother of King Hussein, who founded the Jordanian Red Crescent and championed female education.

Biographical Record

Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil was born in Cairo into an aristocratic Hashemite branch and married her cousin Prince Talal bin Abdullah in 1934. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, she personally mobilized women across Jordan to establish emergency clinics and distribution centers for hundreds of thousands of destitute Palestinian refugees arriving in the kingdom.

Queen Zein founded the Jordanian Red Crescent Society in 1948 and established the Mabarrat Um al-Hussein orphanage in 1951. During the difficult medical abdication of King Talal in 1952, she played a vital, stabilizing constitutional role as mentor to her young eighteen-year-old son King Hussein, championing women's legal rights and social welfare until her death in 1994.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial

Royal Cemetery at Raghadan Palace
Amman, Jordan

                         GPS: 31.9700, 35.9400                    

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