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Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
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نوال ''nawāl'') is Arabic female given name literally meaning "unmerited favour of God" or "gift, grant, present, donation, award, offering" or also could mean "state or quality of being kind, act of kindness beyond what is due" or "grace, kindness, favour, charity". The name is actually an infinitive form of the adjective which stems from verb , meaning "to accomplish, achieve, earn, gain, receive
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Hindustani, () means 'new'. This name is used in many countries such as Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries throughout the world.
People with the name include
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Nawal (musician)
Nawal is a musician from Comoros whose music draws on traditional Comorian influences and incorporates sounds from African and Arabic culture.
Born into a musical family, she grew up with such sounds as dhikr (Sufi chanting) in mosques, twarab mu ...
, Comorian musician
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Nawal Kishore Dhawal
Nawal Kishore Dhawal (11 November 1911 – 17 April 1964) was an Indian writer, poet, editor, critic, journalist and author of many different literary works of his time.
He was the editor of a Hindi newspaper published in Monghyr
Munger, ...
, Indian writer
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Nawal El Jack
Malbas Jamous Nawal El Jack (; born 17 October 1988 in Khartoum) is a Sudanese sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She represented her nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXI ...
, Sudanese sprinter
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Nawal al-Hawsawi
Nawal al-Hawsawi is a Saudi Arabian female pilot. Women becoming pilots is nearly impossible in Saudi Arabia, making Nawal al-Hawsawi a pioneer and a problem for the monarchy in the country. She also has led the country's women in fights against r ...
, Saudi Arabian pilot and activist
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Nawal El Kuwaitia
Nawal (; born Nawal Thaher Habib Al-Zaid , 18 November 1966), formerly known by her stage name "Nawal El Kuwaitia ()" is a singer and actress.
Career
Nawal studied at the Music Institute in Kuwait.
Nawal's first album was released in 1984. The ...
, Kuwaiti singer
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Nawal Al-Maghafi
Nawal Al-Maghafi (born 1990) is a Yemeni-British broadcast journalist and documentary maker who has worked for the BBC since 2011. She has been an international correspondent on ''BBC Newsnight'' since May 2023.
She has covered conflicts, human ...
, Yemeni-British journalist and documentary filmmaker
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Nawal Mansouri
Nawel Mansouri (born August 1, 1985, in Béjaïa) is an Algerian international volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the othe ...
, Algerian volleyball player
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Nawal El Moutawakel
Nawal El Moutawakel ( Amazigh: ⵏⴰⵡⴰⵍ ⵍⵎⵓⵜⴰⵡⴰⵇⵇⵍ ; ; born 15 April 1962) is a Moroccan former hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and is the first Moroccan, ...
, Moroccan hurdler
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Nawal M. Nour, Sudanese-American obstetrician and gynecologist
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Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote numerous books on the subject of women in Islam, focusing on the concerns of third-world women pertaining to sexuality, p ...
, Egyptian feminist
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Nawal Kishore Sharma
Nawal Kishore Sharma ( Dausa, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 5 July 1925 – 8 October 2012) was an Indian politician, who served as Governor of Gujarat state from July 2004 to July 2009.
Biography
His father's name was Pandit Mool Chand Sharma.
He was ...
, Indian politician
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Nawal El Tatawy (born 1942), Egyptian economist
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Nawal Al Zoghbi
Nawal El Zoghbi (, also spelled Nawal Al Zoghbi; born 29 June 1972) is a Lebanon, Lebanese singer and actress.
She is called the Golden Star, She achieved popularity first by singing traditional Arabic music with a pop sensibility, and also em ...
, Lebanese singer
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