Princess Jawaher Bint Majed believes that culture is the spiritual essence of a people and leaves an indelible mark on a nation’s present and future.This belief is the motivation behind Al Mansouria: a foundation devoted to art, artists and creativity.The Al Mansouria Foundation is a non-profit cultural organization, based in Paris and created in 1999 under the law of 1901, with the goal of supporting the visual arts of the Arab world and guaranteeing their preservation and development globally. The Foundation recognized a deficiency in the preservation and furtherance of Arab culture from the outset and sought to rectify this.