The smart husband managed to get the full interview of Queen Rania on Oprah digitized and onto this blog. So for those interested, who either weren’t able to see it or would like to see it again, it’s all available here. It’s about 19 minutes long. [The video is best enjoyed with a broadband connection, and could be pulled at any time. Right cick here (save target as) for the direct download link for the file. Thus far, this hasn’t been converted into Flash, but blip.tv says their server will do it soon :0] Enjoy!
Okay, it’s back up again and this time it’s in Flash [Click to view]. It should even be capable of being podcast [gasp!]. As a flash movie the quality is not as great, so a WMV file will be loaded here for download only. And for those interested, Queen Rania did do Oprah once before, right after 9/11. This is the link to the transcript of that show.
The video is running non-flash for the moment, that’s true. they are supposed to update it to Flash at some point; somehow their server will convert it to Flash, although on a first come, first serve basis. So at some point, on their site it’ll go Flash; hopefully soon. As to why not YouTube, well, that’s where I went first but they flagged it as a violation because of copyright and pulled it within the first two minutes! So, for the moment, we are going with blip.tv 🙂
That was good; thanks for posting the link. Queen is saying that women abuse in Jordan is a misconception; I find that as a disconnect from reality; but for the queen, maybe she is right because in her circle, she meets well respecting men !
The whole idea , from queen’s perspective, was to portray a positive, beautiful picture about Jordan and life there, and I think she did a very good Job. She looked down to earth, and thats where everyone belongs anyway . For that women in the video clip, I am amazed how she is fond of American food and modern fasion even with open back ! wow ! Is that in Jordan ? On the pizza side, lady looked more American than Americans. Long live pizza ! Where is the falafel and hummos and manaasiff?
Hi Natasha,
I hope you don’t mind, I updated my article with the clip too
thanks for sharing 🙂
I agree with Hamzeh. Oprah’s questions are never terribly interesting & lightweight. When Oprah told Rania that she believed in the education of women, I rolled my eyes. I was expecting her to say next how she believed in the importance of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide. 😛
Thanks Natasha! and hubby as well:p
Bakkouz: Thanks for the link! quite easier to hande:D
Hamzeh, the reason that Oprah didn’t touch on valid issues is because she is a shallow, self-absorbed individual. No offense to the Queen, but this interview really had little to do with Jordan (under the surface) and more to do with Oprah’s ratings. Just look at the way Oprah’s interrupts the Queen to interject her banal questions; it’s clear that the Queen outclasses Oprah any day.
I think she looked stunning, but I think nothing really that significant was discussed. I really would have liked it if they had picked one topic and made it the main focus. The one topic here was a queen working for women in her country. That’s really not new, and what do you get from that? A bunch of very general statements that you can use as quotes about educating a kid to educate your future, or judging people based on the inside and not the outside. These are general ideas that people have repeated for decades even in Jordan, they don’t bring anything new really; and in Arabic “hada el 7aki ma be6a3mi khobez”.
Why didn’t Oprah ask about honor crimes and what the Queen’s thoughts were about it? For God’s sake Jordan is one of the most known countries for honor crimes (even though it might not be the country with the highest rate of them), how could the staff at Oprah miss that and not ask about it?
This is Great,
And If you wish to download that video unto your PC here is the direct link:
http://33whitehall.video.blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Mayhem-QueenRaniasFullOprahInterview818.wmv
Thank you and God bless
🙂
It seems it require Windows Media Player, those not using Windows won’t be able to see it 🙁
Why not upload it to YouTube, or Google Video, or other services that play through Flash, so that everyone can see it.. pleeeese