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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.

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Equality, Cause, Specialized, Global

A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

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Woman, Country, Private, Striving

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

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Education, Game, Other, Peers

People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

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Queen, Reason, Sometimes, Formality

I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

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Alive, I Think, Periodic, Comfort Zone

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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Modernity, Mutually, Mutually Exclusive

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

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Them, Being, Means, Treating

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

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Social, Everybody, Revolves

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

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Goal, Very, Hard-Line, Primary Goal

Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

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Good, Worth, Denies, Hard-Line

I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

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Think, Question, I Think, Israelis

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

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Lucky, Some, I Think, Jordan

Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.

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Want, Role, Models, Motivate

Being queen is overrated.

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Queen, Being, Overrated

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

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Sense, Social, Makes, Common Sense

Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

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Own, Holy, Agendas, Interpret

The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.

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Matter, Been, Glamorous, Prioritize

I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

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Work, Challenges, Fact, Daunting

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

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Muslim, About, Really, Arab World

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

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Education, Need, Educational, Arab World

Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

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Think, Solutions, Some, Possibly

We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

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Enemy, Perfect, Away, Programmed

The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 percent of my time. The majority of my time I spend on issues that I care about.

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Work, More, Part, Protocol

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

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Harmony, Through, Other, Fully

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

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Country, Disease, Many, Antidote

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

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Own, Through, Stereotypes, Prism

I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

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Dress, I Think, Symbol, Chooses

Twitter's a great way to tell people across the world what I care about and, hopefully, motivate them to join me in furthering my causes.

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Tell, About, Great Way, Motivate

If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

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Girl, Achieve, Imagine, Feats

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

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Think, I Think, Tolerant, Case

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