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{{Family name hatnote|lang=Arabic|[[Al Saud]]}}
{{Short description|Saudi Arabian royal (born 1948)}}
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| image      = Princess Lolowah Al Faisal Al Saud - World Economic Forum Turkey 2008.jpg
| caption    = Princess Lolowah at the 2008 [[World Economic Forum]] regional meeting in [[Turkey]]
| spouse     = [[Saud bin Abdul Muhsin Al Saud]] (divorced)
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| full name  = Lolowah bint Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
| house      = [[House of Saud|Al Saud]]
| father     = [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia|King Faisal]]
| mother     = [[Iffat Al Thunayan]]
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}}
|birth_place = [[Ta'if]], [[Saudi Arabia]]
}}
'''Lolowah bint Faisal Al Saud''' (also spelled '''Loulwa'''; {{langx|ar|لولوة بنت الفيصل آل سعود|Lūluwah Al Fayṣal Āl Suʿūd}}; born 1948) is a daughter of King [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia]] and [[Iffat Al Thunayan]]. She is considered one of the most publicly visible female members of the [[Saudi royal family]].<ref name="drive">{{cite news|title=Saudi Princess Would Let Women Drive|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012500929_pf.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|author=Sally Buzbee|agency=[[Associated Press]]
|date=2 January 2007|access-date=2 May 2011}}</ref> She is a prominent activist for [[women's education]] and other social issues in Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{cite web|title=H.R.H. Princess Lolowah Al Faisal Al Saud|url=http://www.weforum.org/contributors/hrh-princess-lolowah-al-faisal-al-saud?fo=1|publisher=[[World Economic Forum]]|access-date=2 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927230718/http://www.weforum.org/contributors/hrh-princess-lolowah-al-faisal-al-saud?fo=1|archive-date=27 September 2015}}</ref>
==Biography==
Lolowah bint Faisal was one of nine children of King Faisal and Iffat Al Thunayan. Her mother, Iffat, was born to a [[Turkish people|Turkish]] family.<ref>{{cite book|author=Steve Coll|title=The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M8dSD-CQOTYC&pg=PT163|date=1 April 2008|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-20272-2|page=163}}</ref> She was brought up in a palace in [[Ta’if]]. Like Faisal's other children, she was educated abroad, and attended high school in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland.<ref name="igonorance">{{cite news|title='There's such ignorance about us'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3648711/Theres-such-ignorance-about-us.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|author=Cassandra Jardine|date=12 December 2005|accessdate=2 May 2011}}</ref> She married one of her cousins, [[Saud bin Abdul Muhsin Al Saud|Saud bin Abdul Muhsin]], with whom she had three children, but divorced after ten years.<ref name="igonorance"/><ref>{{cite thesis|author=Gary Samuel Samore|title=Royal Family Politics in Saudi Arabia (1953-1982)|page=256|year=1984
|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303295482|location=[[Harvard University]]|degree=PhD|id={{ProQuest|303295482}}}}</ref>
Princess Lolowah's cousin, [[Faisal bin Musaid]], assassinated her father in March 1975, when Lolowah was 27.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Wynbrandt|title=A Brief History of Saudi Arabia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZkIXdsZpPsC&pg=PA182|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-7876-9|page=236}}</ref>
===Women's issues===
Princess Lolowah has dedicated her life to improving the [[Women's rights in Saudi Arabia|welfare of women in Saudi Arabia]], especially in the field of education. She has been a member of the Al Nahdah Philanthropic Society for Women in Riyadh since 1970. From 1990 to 1999, she assisted her mother, Queen Iffat in supervising the Dar Al Hanan School in Jeddah, the first private female high school in Saudi Arabia. Along with her mother and siblings, she helped found Effat College (now [[Effat University]]) in 1999.<ref>[https://www.effatuniversity.edu.sa/English/About/Governance/Pages/default.aspx Effat University Board of Founders]</ref><ref>[https://www.effatuniversity.edu.sa/English/About/Governance/Pages/Board_of_Trustees.aspx Effat University Board of Trustees]</ref>
Lolowah was involved in all the phases of the college's founding, from raising funds, developing the curriculum, overseeing construction to the hiring of faculty and staff.<ref name=holyoke>{{cite news|title=Ireland's President Is Commencement|publisher=[[Mount Holyoke College]] Speaker|url=http://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/stories/5681253|date=6 April 2009|access-date=2 May 2011|archive-date=22 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122165724/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/stories/5681253|url-status=dead}}</ref> She serves as the university's vice chair of the Board of Founders and Board of Trustees, and general supervisor.She allowed herself to be photographed by Western media for the first time in 2005.<ref name="igonorance"/>
During a public session at the 2007 World Economic Forum, Lolowah spoke out against the ban on driving for women in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="drive"/> In addition to advocating more rights for Saudi women, she also works against misconceptions about women in Saudi Arabia that exist in the West. She insists Muslim women are accorded equal rights but not necessarily the same rights as men.<ref name="igonorance"/>
===Representing Saudi Arabia===
Princess Lolowah has also represented Saudi Arabia at various international forums. She served as a member of the Committee of International Trade of the Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industries. In 2006, she led a delegation of Saudi businesswomen to Hong Kong.<ref name="drive"/> She has participated in Saudi trade missions abroad, accompanying senior Saudi royal family members on diplomatic travels.<ref name="bridges">{{cite news|title=Building Bridges: A Conversation with Princess Loulwa Al Faisal|url=http://www.susris.com/2005/06/02/building-bridges-a-conversation-with-princess-loulwa-al-faisal-2/|publisher=Saudi-US Relations Information Service|date=5 June 2005
|access-date=2 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424175126/http://www.susris.com/2005/06/02/building-bridges-a-conversation-with-princess-loulwa-al-faisal-2/|archive-date=24 April 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Lolowah has given many speeches worldwide on the advancement of Muslim women.<ref>{{cite news|title=Princess Lolowah offers support to women's leadership forum|url=http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article171778.ece|work=Arab News|date=28 October 2010|accessdate=2 May 2011|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106193013/http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article171778.ece|archivedate=6 November 2010}}</ref> She is a member of the summit agenda of the [[World Economic Forum]] and participated in the forum's sessions.<ref>{{cite web|title=HRH Princess Lolowah Al Faisal|url=http://www.6thwief.org/speakers/speaker_detail?c=1481&id|publisher=6th World Islamic Economic Forum|access-date=2 May 2011}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> During the 2008 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in [[Davos]], she presented the working session "What Kind of Education for What Kind of World?", delivering a speech focusing on the philosophy of education.<ref>{{cite news|title=HRH Princess Loulwa Al Faisal presents working session at WEF|url=http://www.ameinfo.com/146463.html
|work=AMEinfo|date=23 January 2008|access-date=2 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010194707/http://www.ameinfo.com/146463.html}}</ref> She was the keynote speaker at the London Middle East Institute Conference at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], London in 2003.<ref name="bridges"/> At home, she is a board member of the [[King Faisal Foundation]].<ref name="bridges"/>
Like her father King Faisal, Princess Lolowah speaks fluent English and French in addition to her native Arabic.<ref name="igonorance"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Man in the news. King Faisal|access-date=21 July 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ioljAAAAIBAJ&pg=7016,410533&dq=king+faisal+of+saudi+arabia&hl=en|date=5 November 1964}}</ref>
==Honours==
In 2009, Princess Lolowah received an honorary degree from [[Mount Holyoke College]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="holyoke"/><ref>{{cite news
|title=Irish President to speak at commencement|url=http://themhnews.org/2009/04/news/irish-president-to-speak-at-commencement|work=The Mount Holyoke News|author=Amanda Aultman|date=9 April 2009|accessdate=3 May 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830225259/http://themhnews.org/2009/04/news/irish-president-to-speak-at-commencement|archivedate=30 August 2011}}</ref> She also spoke at the commencement ceremony. Mount Holyoke College played a consultative role in the founding of Effat University.<ref name="holyoke"/> She later received honorary doctorates from [[Tokai University]], Japan, in 2011, for her role in promoting women in science and technology and from the [[University of Salford]], UK, in 2013, for her dedication to women's welfare and contributions to education in Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=HRH Princess Lolwah Al Faisal {{!}} 20th Anniversay {{!}} About |url=https://www.effatuniversity.edu.sa/English/About/Effat-20th-Anniversary/Pages/princess-lolwah-alfaisal.aspx |access-date=2024-09-15 |website=www.effatuniversity.edu.sa}}</ref>
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Lolowah bint Faisal Al Saud'''
|2= 2. [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia]]
|3= 3. [[Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan]]
|4= 4. [[Ibn Saud]]
|5= 5. [[Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh]]
|6= 6. Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Saud
|7= 7. Asia
|8= 8. [[Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud (1850–1928)|Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud]]
|9= 9. [[Sara bint Ahmed Al Sudairi]]
|10= 10. Abdullah bin Abdulateef Al Sheikh
|11= 11. Haya bint Abdul Rahman Al Muqbel
|12= 12. [[Abdullah bin Abdullah Al Saud]]
|13= 13. Tazeruh Hanım
|16= 16. [[Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al Saud]]
|17= 17. Sara bint Mishari bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan Al Saud
|18= 18. Ahmed Al Kabir bin Mohammed bin Turki Al Sudairi
|19= 19. Hessa bint Muhanna bin Saleh Al Nuwairan
|20= 20. Abdulateef bin Abdulrahman Al Sheikh
|24= 24. [[Abdullah bin Thunayan Al Saud]]}}
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