Salwa

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Salwa is an Arabic word meaning "solace". It may refer to:

People

  • Salwa Abdullah (born 1953), Syrian politician
  • Salwa El-Awa, British academic
  • Salwa Bakr (born 1949), Egyptian author and critic
  • Salwa Bughaighis (1964–2014), Libyan human rights and political activist
  • Salwa El-Deghali, Libyan academic
  • Salwa Fallouh (1920–2008), Syrian painter and illustrator
  • Salwa al-Jassar, Kuwaiti politician
  • Sally ("Salwa") Shatila Kader, Lebanese-American peace activist
  • Salwa Al Katrib (1953–2009), Lebanese singer
  • Salwa Abu Khadra (born 1929), Palestinian politician and educator
  • Princess Salwa Aga Khan (born 1988), American model, wife of Prince Rahim Aga Khan
  • Salwa Eid Naser (born 1998), Bahraini track sprinter
  • Salwa Al Neimi, Syrian writer and feminist
  • Salwa Toko (born 1975), French diversity and digital literacy activist
  • Salwa Zeidan, Lebanese artist

Places

  • Salwa, Kuwait, an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait
  • Salwa Kingdom, an ancient Indian kingdom in the Mahabharata
  • Salwa, Saudi Arabia, a settlement at the southwest corner of the Gulf of Salwah, endpoint of the Salwa Highway

Other uses

  • LORAN-C transmitter Salwa
  • Salwa Canal, proposed shipping route through Saudi Arabia along its border with Qatar
  • Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxalite movement in Chhattisgarh, India

See also

  • Gulf of Salwah, the southern portion of the Gulf of Bahrain
  • Salva (disambiguation)
  • Salwah, a village in Idlib Governorate, Syria
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