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I don’t know much about Suzanne Mubarak! And I don’t claim to!
This post was on current first wives – that’s why Farah was omitted.
Charlize Theron and Angelina Jolie are also goodwill ambassadors. It’s more of a trophy position than a real one – so her being one doesn’t account to anything. However, I don’t know much about her either. If she is a cultural activist, kudos to her!

in Iran HIM Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi did a great role for educating people, and else know she is the hardest working Lady promoting Iran Culture.

Mrs. Aliyeva is very Young one but in a short of period did great things on establishing building new museums, libraries. She become Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO.

This is a blog and is meant to portray my thoughts/ideas about the rest of the world and not my personal life! I’m not sure what sort of blog you run, but most people I know are not too comfortable with posting their life online – achievements or otherwise. So I’m not sure how you figured out my focus on personal achievements – or lack of.

People have a Free choice what to do with their faces and what to wear on their bodies.

No, unfortunately they don’t! Whether it’s simple decorum, tradition, threats, or ridicule, people in the public eye are restrained – or at least should be.

And yes, face lifts and designer clothes are personal choices, but they are not virtues as portrayed in the American media where the prettiest first wives in the Middle East are deemed leaders of phony “democratic” nations! And as a resident of such nations, I have every right to criticize!

instead of criticizing first ladies, better focus on your achievments.
Re face lifts and no bra..
People have a Free chice what to do with their faces and what to wear on their bodies. You seem to be somebody who is a slave of prejudices.

Hey wait a minute … I Just checked the URL. Is it Vanity Fair’s slideshow of Carla Bruni? I saw it before I left ………… Interesting … to say the least!

Bijan, you are right, Noor was Princeton educated. And she does not sound that bad. Nor does Rania, nor did Farah (at least not all the time).

The problem is not that these women themselves are uneducated or gullible, but rather, who they represent. King Hussein was by many standards a puppet, an incompetent dictator and, along with his father, one of the worst plagues to have hit the Palestinian cause.

But that’s not how he is judged. Indeed, it is Noor that becomes his “image” in the Western media. As is Rania for Abdullah.

These were and are backward regimes, as bad as any other. The fact that they are not judged on the basis of what they are, the fact that they are only judged on the merits of their pretty, well spoken wives is what really gets me angry! That being an ally of the West exempts you from all other standards.