Background
A daughter of Baha ud-Din Toukan (or Touqan), former Jordanian ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Alia was born in Cairo, Egypt. Her father Baha ud-Din was a prominent Palestinian diplomat from Nablus, who had settled in Es-Salt, near Amman.
She spent most of her childhood years traveling with her parents during her father’s career in Jordan’s diplomatic corps: she lived in Egypt, Turkey, London, the United States, and Rome. She attended Church School in London with her younger brother, Ali. She studied at the Rome Center of Liberal Arts of Loyola University Chicago. She studied political science with a minor in social psychology, and public relations at Hunter College in New York. She was interested in sports and writing, and she wished to be a diplomat. In 1971, she moved to Jordan, where she worked for Royal Jordanian Airlines. She was asked by King Hussein Bin Talal to oversee the preparations for the first International Water Skiing Festival held in Aqaba in September 1972.
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