Rym Ali

Rym Ali

Princess Rym Ali ( Arabic ريم علي, DMG Rīm ʿAlī ; * 1969 in Cairo as Rym Lakhdar Brahimi, Arabicريم الأخضر الإبراهيمي / Rīm al-Aḫḍar al-Ibrāhīmī ) is a former Algerian journalist and the wife of the Jordanian prince Ali bin al-Hussein .

Life

Rym is the daughter of the Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi . She grew up in Great Britain and Algeria and studied in France and the USA . She received her BA in Geography and an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Paris . She studied political science and international relations at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and journalism at Columbia University .

On September 7, 2004, she married Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan. The couple has two children: Princess Jalila bint Ali (born September 16, 2005) and Prince Abdullah bin Ali (born March 19, 2007).

job

Before their wedding, Rym Ali worked as a journalist. She started at CNN in 1998 , among other things from 2001 to 2004 as a correspondent in Baghdad . She later worked for Dubai TV , Bloomberg Television , Radio Monte Carlo and United Press International , and finally for the BBC .

On August 14, 2006, Rym Ali founded the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), a journalist training facility that works with the University of Jordan .

Rym Ali has been a member of the Royal Jordanian Film Commission since 2007.

Awards

Rym Ali has received several journalism awards, including the Italian award for Best International Journalist at the 32nd Ischia International Journalism Awards Ceremony in July 2011 .

On September 20, 2011, Rym Ali was accepted as a knight in the French Legion of Honor .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein. (No longer available online.) The Official Website of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; accessed on June 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ About JMI. (No longer available online.) Jordan Media Institute, archived from the original on May 1, 2012 ; Retrieved June 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Board of Commissioners. Royal Film Commission of Jordan, accessed June 4, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Her Royal Highness Princess Rym Ali. (No longer available online.) International Press Institute, March 7, 2012, archived from the original on November 9, 2012 ; accessed on June 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ La France décore SAR la Princesse Rym ALI. January 18, 2012, accessed June 4, 2012 (French). 

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Jordan Media Institute ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)