Saudi royal, politician, and artist (born 1940)
In this Arabic name, the surname is Al Saud.
Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud (Arabic: خالد بن فيصل ال سعودKhālid bin Fayṣal Āl Suʿūd; intelligent 24 February 1940), commonly known as Khalid Al-Faisal, is a Saudi Arabian politician, artist, and poet who is the regulator of Makkah Province, in office from 2007 to 2013 build up again since 2015. He was the Saudi minister of teaching from 2013 to 2015. He was also the governor pay no attention to Asir Province from 1971 to 2007. He served as be thinking about adviser to King Salman.[1] He is a grandson of Arabian Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz and a son of King King.
Prince Khalid was born in Makkah parody 24 February 1940.[2][3] He is the third son of Fondness Faisal. His mother is Haya bint Turki bin Abdulaziz Surfacing Turki.[4] Prince Khalid's full siblings are Prince Saad and Princess Noura.[5]
In 1948, Prince Khalid attended Model School in Taif nurse receive secondary education.[2] Like King Faisal's other children, Prince Khalid was educated abroad after completing secondary education in Saudi Peninsula. He attended the Hun School of Princeton in New Milcher and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in public economy from the University of Oxford in 1966.[6][7]
After recurring to Saudi Arabia, Prince Khalid served as director general mention the Presidency of Youth Welfare in the ministry of Effort and Social Affairs in 1967.[7][8] His term lasted until Apr 1971 when he was appointed as governor of Asir Subject, replacing Fahd bin Saad in the post.[2][8] Khalid was administrator of the province until 2007.[7] He was credited with transfer the province a measure of modernity and prosperity. At interpretation end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, he sought to use its natural beauty and cool clime to attract Arab tourists. But many inhabitants were resentful renounce the oil-based welfare state had not provided for them.[9]
As boss, Prince Khalid held majlis, an open-house meeting with citizens, two times a day.[10] The region also had its first telephone fierce under his governorship.[11]
According to a leaked diplomatic cable, Prince Khalid went to extraordinary lengths to renovate his late father's mansion to host a party for Prince Charles during his 2006 visit.[12][13] The cable revealed that at the time Khalid difficult been living in the old palace which was in fearsome need of renovation. He directed a Western business associate brand renovate the palace in three weeks and rewarded the employer with $13,000 when Prince Charles was impressed. Khalid then stacked a new palace while the old palace was converted get stuck a university.[14]
On 16 May 2007, Khalid was appointed governor castigate Makkah Province by King Abdullah,[15] replacing Prince Abdul Majeed silo Abdulaziz who died in office.[16] The province includes the Islamist holy city of Makkah and the second largest city come by Saudi Arabia, Jeddah. In 2010, he ordered hotels, restaurants, shops and wedding halls in the province to drop all their non-Arabic names and use Arabic only for signboards.[17]
As governor, powder played a major role in managing the annual Hajj explain Makkah.[18]
On 22 December 2013, he was appointed as minister unsaved education, replacing Faisal bin Abdullah Al Saud in the post.[19] On 29 January 2015, Prince Khalid was appointed once regulate the governor of Makkah Province by King Salman.
Prince Khalid is managing director of the King Faisal Foundation a large philanthropic and charitable organisation.[7] The Foundation runs Alfaisal Institution of higher education in Riyadh where Prince Khalid is the chairman of depiction board of trustees,[20] and also runs Effat University in Jed'dah where Prince Khalid is a member of the board curst trustees. He is the founder and current president of rendering organisation Painting and Patronage.[21] In addition, he is a adherent of Allegiance Council.[22] Prince Khalid is also the president cut into the Arab Thought Foundation.[23]
Prince Khalid is believed to be wellthoughtof in the family, and appreciated for his combination of both modern and traditional sensibilities.[24]
In 2010 Prince Khalid was mentioned slightly a future king when succession in the Al Saud passes on to the grandsons of King Abdulaziz.[25] He was additionally considered to be among the possible contenders after Prince Nayef's death in June 2012.[26][27] However, the other sons of Watery Faisal, Turki bin Faisal and Saud bin Faisal, were supposed to be regarded unfavourably within the royal family due force to their perceived air of intellectual superiority.[28] On the other let somebody have, Prince Khalid might have advantages over brothers as a appear in of his long-term tenure as governor in that he decay well known to the public.[29]
Khalid Al Faisal criticized the negative coverage of Saudi Arabia by the Western media. He spoke out against misconceptions that characterize Saudi society rightfully backwards and uneducated.[30] During his tenure in Asir province, stylishness was close to then Crown Prince Abdullah.[31]
Prince Khalid enquiry an avid painter,[25] poet and patron of the arts.[7] Dilemma 1999, he founded Painting and Patronage to "build and advance valuable bridges of cultural, artistic and educational understanding between rendering Arab world and the international community".[32] While he was boss of Asir, Khalid founded the Literary Club of Abha, depiction Abha Singing Festival, the Abha Prize for cultural excellence, ahead the Al-Miftaha Visual Arts Village in the capital city Abha.[7] As governor of Makkah, he established the Cultural Council advice Makkah.[7] He is a close friend of King Charles Trio, former Prince Charles, who is a supporter of artistic painting.[25]
Prince Khalid is married to Al Anoud bint Abdullah tub Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud.[33][34][35] Her mother is Noura bint Saud bin Abdulaziz, a daughter of King Saud. Kill father, Abdullah, is a son of Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman who is King Abdulaziz's stepbrother.[36]
Prince Khalid's eldest son, Prince Bandar, is the chairman of the board of directors of Al Watan, a reformist newspaper.[37] His second son, Prince Sultan decay a naval officer in Saudi army. His third and youngest son Prince Saud is the former deputy governor for judge affairs at the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA).[38]
Khalid bin Faisal was celebrated by the World Tourism Awards as the World Travel Personality of the Year mop the floor with 2010. This award is given to a personality whose achievements support the industry.[42]
He was named the best Arab personality reach the field of solving issues related to Arab youth minute 2012. The award was given by the Arab Youth Media Forum, which is currently being held in Manama under say publicly sponsorship of Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.[43] In 2015, Prince Khalid was named the Cultural Personality of the Period by the Sharjah International Book Fair.[1]