During the 1960s, she established the first two social agencies in Saudi Arabia — Women's Welfare Association in and Al Nahdah Women's Welfare Association in Riyadh | one of her younger daughters attended Dar Al Hanan |
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Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Thunayan, Iffat's father, was a physician in the and her mother, Asia, was a woman | Prince Faisal, who served as viceroy of the Hijaz, took Iffat back to Turkey with her aunt |
Majority of the teachers were or , and the girls' section was strictly for daughters of the extended royal family.
6In August 1993 Iffat underwent surgery due to bowel ailment at medical center of | Steve Coll 1 April 2008 |
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She became honorary president of the "Saudi Arabian Renaissance Society" — a woman's society in Riyadh to teach women skills in crafts, and to assist needy families — in the organization's fifth anniversary | In the 1970s, Iffat started the country's first community college for women |
She contacted foreign tutors to educate her daughters.
Marriage with Faisal [ ] In 1931, Prince Faisal met Iffat for the first time while she was undertaking a Makkah pilgrimage with her aunt | She was remarkably well organized |
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Iffat's grandfather was Abdullah bin Abdullah bin Thunayan Al Saud |
She frequented many graduation ceremonies.
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