Jawaher bint Majid Al Saud is a
Saudi royal who is the first Saudi woman to have been granted the title of the patron of arts in
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
.
Biography
Princess Jawaher is the daughter of
Prince Majid, one of
King Abdulaziz
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود, ʿAbd al ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd ar Raḥman Āl Suʿūd; 15 January 1875Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted ...
's sons. Her full siblings include
Prince Mishaal,
Prince Abdulaziz and Princess Basma who married
Bandar bin Faisal, one of
King Faisal's sons.
Princess Jawaher founded the Al Mansouria Foundation in 1999 which contributes to the
creative arts
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...
through the exhibitions and publications.
[ She is the president of the foundation which based in Paris.] In 2013 she also founded the non-profit Saudi Art Council. Under her patronage several exhibitions of arts, design and architecture have been conducted.
References
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Living people
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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