Jordan's Queen Rania -who has introduced a daily webcast and blog, using the powerful yet most powerful medium YouTube- has received its first Visionary Award her introduced cast and blogs in which she sought to challenge stereotypes of the Arab and Muslim world and encourage dialogue across cultures.

Among her reasons were: "Because anything Queen Elizabeth can do, I can do better" and "I was tired of people thinking Jordan was just a basketball player."
More seriously, Rania has said she wants people to "know the real Arab world ... unedited, unscripted and unfiltered."
YouTube created the Visionary Award to recognize people who use the video sharing Web site as a platform for positive social change.

In the series, which ran from March to August 2008, the queen being media savvy queen and rights advocate invited viewers to share their opinions of the Middle East and talk about stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims.
The series began at a time when Muslim sentiment was stirred by an Internet film criticizing the Quran produced by an anti-immigrant politician in the Netherlands. It also followed the outrage over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in newspapers in Europe.
Among her advocacy work, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah has promoted education, micro-credit financing and anti-poverty campaigns.
This is a great initiative from the youngest yet one of the most popular and admired in the world Royalties.