Jordanian students were superfriendly and constantly invited them home for weekends.

The brief message on my phone read, "Four Jordanian students were killed when their car was hit by a U.S. coalition missile near Mosul in northern Iraq."

There are over 200,000 Jordanian students enrolled in universities each year.

In December, Iraq executed four Jordanian students who had smuggled $850 in auto parts into the country.

Before the end of the school year, however, he was exiled with some other Jordanian students to Beirut, Lebanon, by the Ottoman authorities.

A Jordanian student was charged yesterday in Manhattan with lying before a federal grand jury investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The government had held a Jordanian student, Osama Awadallah, above, as a material witness and later indicted him on charges of lying before a grand jury.

Most of the Jordanian students in Western Europe and the United States receive financing from their families, but some obtain assistance from the government of Jordan.

Before agreeing to speak, Queen Noor asked whether Occidental would be willing to establish a scholarship fund for Jordanian students.

She initiated the Al-Aman Fund for the Future of Orphans in 2003, and has partnered with international universities providing scholarships for Jordanian students abroad.