Princess Aisha bint Hussein
Jordanian Royal
Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein (Arabic: الأميرة عائشة بنت الحسين) (born 23 April 1968) is the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan and is the twin sister of Princess Zein. Her parents are King Hussein and Princess Muna.
Education
Aisha was born on 23 April 1968 at Palestine Hospital in Amman. She was educated up to age eight in Jordan, at the American community school (in the same class as her sister Zein, for all or almost all of the time). She moved to the U.S. to pursue her education for 10 years. She attended The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, through the eighth grade. She graduated from Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1986. She then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom, completing the officer's training course in 1987. She then completed an undergraduate degree in Modern Middle East History and Politics from Pembroke College, Oxford. In June 2010 she completed her Master of Arts degree in Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), at the National Defense University, Washington, D.C., USA.
Professional life
Hussein is a major general in the Jordanian military and became the first female in the Middle East to receive her parachutist wings after completing five military parachute jumps, according to her official biography.
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