Fahda bint Saud Al Saud
| Fahda bint Saud Al Saud | |||||
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| Born | 1951 (age 65–66) Riyadh |
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| Spouse | Baron Kurt Bergstrøm (Abdullah) | ||||
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| House | House of Saud | ||||
| Father | King Saud | ||||
| Mother | Jamila bint Assad bin Ibrahim Al Mirhi | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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| Fahda bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud |
Fahda bint Saud Al Saud (born 1951) is a Saudi Arabian artist and a member of House of Saud.
Princess Fahda was born in 1951. She is daughter of King Saud. Her mother is Jamila bint Assad bin Ibrahim Al Mirhi.
Princess Fahda received primary education in Riyadh until 1964. Then, she attended the English boarding school in Beirut. In 1969, she completed her high school education at the Beirut Evangelical School for girls that was an American school. She received her bachelor's degree in political sciences from Beirut College for Women (now the Lebanese American University) in 1974. She obtained a master of arts degree in political sciences from the American University of Beirut in 1976. She then studied in the School of Oriental and African Studies for one year. There she participated non-degree research courses in the department of political science. Later, she moved to Paris to study art and participated in courses on Islamic geometric patterns there.
Fahda bint Saud participated in some exhibitions that have feminist focus through her watercolours. One of such exhibitions was organized by the Royal Society of Fine Arts in Jordan and the Pan-Mediterranean Women Artists Network of Greece to eliminate the negative stereotypes concerning women across the Islamic world. The first exhibition was in Australia under the organization of the Interfaith Centre of Melbourne from 25 January to 23 March 2008. Princess Fahda's watercolour work in this exhibition entitled Three Women is a visual representation of the Japanese Golden Rule “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” so dominant in the Islamic world. She herself also organized exhibitions mainly concerning with her father's memory. Additionally, Princess Fahda supported the exhibitions of other artists in Saudi Arabia, for instance that of Farha Sayeed, an Indian artist who focuses on decoration of eggs.
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