Misplaced Pages

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Alia Tabbaa" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Princess Alia Tabbaa (Arabic: عالية الطباع, born 15 September 1964) is the first wife of Prince Faisal bin Hussein.

She is the daughter of Sayyid Tawfik Al-Tabbaa and Lamia Addem. Her father was a well-known and respected Damascene businessman, and the founder and president of the Royal Jordanian Airlines.

Alia and Faisal have four children together:

• Princess Ayah bint Faisal (born on 11 February 1990)
• Prince Omar bin Faisal (born on 22 October 1993)
• Princess Sara bint Faisal (born on 27 March 1997) (twin of Aisha)
• Princess Aisha bint Faisal (born on 27 March 1997) (twin of Sara)

Alia studied at The Ahliyyah School for Girls, in Amman, Jordan during her school years. She subsequently attended the University of Sussex, where she studied International Relations.

She is currently the president of the Promise Welfare Society. She is also the president of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, and as of 2006 became the president of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, following Queen Noor of Jordan.

Honours

Foreign honours

•  Spain: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic (26 May 2006).

References

1. "AT A GLANCE: Princess Alia Tabbaa inaugurates childcare centre". Jordon Times. 23 February 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
2. "محمد صبري الطباع". التاريخ السوري المعاصر (in Arabic). 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
3. Jaber, Hana (2018-12-05). "Blessed Investors and Cursed Refugees: A Reading of Syrian Presence in Jordan". Arab Reform Initiative.
4. Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News. 1966.
5. Boletín Oficial del Estado

v t e Jordanian princesses
Generations are numbered by descent from Abdullah I.
1st generation	Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil Princess Mihrimah Sultan
2nd generation	Dina bint Abdul-Hamid Antoinette Gardiner Firyal Irshaid Sarvath Ikramullah Princess Basma bint Talal Firouzeh Vokhshouri Wijdan Muhana Sana Kalimat
3rd generation	Princess Alia bint Al Hussein Rania Al-Yasin Alia Tabbaa Princess Aisha bint Al Hussein Princess Zein bint Al Hussein Princess Haya bint Al Hussein Rym Brahimi Bashmah Bani Ahmad Al-Outom Princess Iman bint Al Hussein Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein Ghida Salaam Miriam Ungría y López Princess Rahma bint El Hassan Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan Princess Badiya bint El Hassan Zeina Shaban Princess Sara bint Asem Princess Noor bint Asem Princess Salha bint Asem Princess Nejla bint Asem
4th generation	Rajwa Al Saif Princess Iman bint Abdullah Princess Salma bint Abdullah Princess Ayah bint Faisal Princess Sara bint Faisal Princess Aisha bint Faisal
5th generation	Princess Iman bint Hussein
Princess of Jordan by marriage Former queen consort given the title of princess upon divorce Princess of Jordan by birth and marriage

This biography of a member of a Middle Eastern royal house is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1964 births
• Living people
• Alumni of the University of Sussex
• Dames Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
• Jordanian princesses by marriage
• Jordanian people of Syrian descent
• Middle Eastern royalty stubs