Her 1978 marriage to Jordan 's King Hussein catapulted Queen Noor into the public consciousness as a beautiful, exotic royal. But her roots run deep in Dallas , and when she returned here this month to appear at the Hatton W. Sumners Lecture Series, it was something of a homecoming. The former Lisa Halaby, Her Majesty is the daughter of former Pan-Am Airlines chairman and CEO Najeeb Halaby, who was born in Dallas in 1915. His father immigrated to Texas from Syria in 1890 and began working with Stanley Marcus. He eventually opened his own boutique in Neiman's that he ran until his death. Najeeb was appointed head of the Federal Aviation Administration by President John Kennedy. He died last summer from congestive heart failure. And if all of that doesn't make the queen a Texan, she is also a Dallas Cowboys fan. The Sumners Lecture Series is hosted by the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis. The night before the lecture, the queen got a chance to relax with the locals at the Highland Park home of NCPA board member Dan Cook and his wife, Gail. Among those mingling with Her Majesty were developer Ross Perot Jr. and his wife, Sarah; oilman Ed Cox and his steady, Kerbey Clark; former Gov. Bill Clements and his wife, Rita; NCPA president John Goodman and his wife, NCPA vice president Jeanette Goodman; and former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont and his daughter Elise du Pont Zoller, who worked for Queen Noor in Jordan in the '80s.