Education
University of Edinburgh. Columbia University.
University of Edinburgh. Columbia University.
She has two brothers Hamzah and Hashem and an elder sister Princess Iman. Princess Raiyah received her undergraduate degree in Japanese at the University of Edinburgh. She took a year abroad studying at Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
Upon graduation, she moved to Tokyo where she spent three years working in the field of human development.
She participated in the official visit to Japan by King Abdullah II in April 2009. Currently, Princess Raiyah is a graduate student studying a Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles on "the reception of medieval warrior narratives in Japan and the Arab World and their impact upon the construction of national identities" at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles).
She is a half-sister to King Abdullah II of Jordan.