Princess Rym Ali
Jordanian Royal
Princess Rym Ali (née Rym Brahimi; born 1969) is the Algerian wife of Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan, whom she married on 7 September 2004. She is a former journalist.
Early life
She is the daughter of Lakhdar Brahimi, former Algerian Minister for Foreign Affairs and senior UN official, and Mila Bacic, who is of half-Croatian and half-Armenian descent. She was raised in the United Kingdom and Algeria, and was educated in France and the United States.
Education
As Rym Brahimi, the Princess received a BA in geography and an MA in English literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, graduating with honors in 1990; a MPhil in political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in Paris in 1991; and a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, concentrating on international reporting, in 1994.
Career
Prior to marrying Prince Ali, Princess Rym worked extensively for international broadcasters including CNN, where she began as a producer in 1998 and later worked as a Baghdad correspondent from 2001 until 2004. She had developed her portfolio working for the BBC, Dubai TV, Bloomberg TV, Radio Monte-Carlo Moyen-Orient and United Press International-UPI.
She has been the Executive Commissioner of the Royal Film Commission – Jordan since July 2005.
She is the founder of the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), a non-profit institution whose aim is to establish an Arab center of excellence for journalism education with a Master's program at its core and training-modules in parallel.
She is also the president of the Amman International Film Festival "AIFF" Awal Film since 2017.
Awards and honours
National
Jordan
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan
Honours
France: Knight of the Order of Legion of Honour (20 September 2011)
Norway: Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (2 March 2020)
Portugal: Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (5 April 2018)
Sweden: Member Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star (15 November 2022)
Awards
In April 2011, Princess Rym Ali received a prestigious award from the Columbia University School of Journalism.
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