Portal:Jordan/Selected biography/1 Stephanie Al-Naber (born 27 October 1988) is a Jordanian footballer and as of 2019 the captain of the Jordan women's national football team who plays as a midfielder. Al-Naber grew up playing with Shabab Al-Ordon, one of the first football clubs to start a women's team, and captained the Jordan team when they hosted the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup.
Abdullah el-TellAbdullah el-Tell, (Arabic: عبدالله التل, 1918 – 1973) served in the TransjordanianArab Legion during the 1948 war in Palestine rising from the rank of company commander to become Military Governor of the Old City of Jerusalem. He was later accused of being involved in the assassination of King Abdullah I and spent many years in Egypt before returning to Jordan in 1967.
El-Tell was born into a wealthy family in Irbid just as the Ottoman army were retreating from the town. His mother held him up to the window to witness the soldiers leaving. His secondary education was in Egypt. When he was 18 years old he was jailed for demonstrating against the British.
Abdullah I bin Al-Hussein was the ruler of Jordan and its predecessor state, Transjordan, from 1921 until his assassination in 1951. He was Emir of Transjordan from 21 April 1921 to 25 May 1946 under a British mandate, and was king of an independent nation from 25 May 1946 until his assassination. According to Abdullah, he was a 38th-generation direct descendant of Muhammad as he belongs to the Hashemite family.
His Majesty late King Hussein Bin Talal was the third king of Jordan and ruled the country from 11 August, 1952 until his death on February 7, 1999. At the time of his passing, the king was the longest serving executive head of state in the world. King Hussein is seen as the father of modern Jordan, with conditions rapidly improving throughout his reign as he modernized the country; UNICEF statistics, for example, show that between 1981 and 1991, Jordan achieved the world’s fastest annual rate of decline in infant mortality - from 70 deaths per 1000 births in 1981 to 37 per 1000 in 1991, a fall of over 47%.
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