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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), Comorian musician
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Nawal Kishore Dhawal, Indian writer
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Nawal El Jack, Sudanese sprinter
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Nawal al-Hawsawi, 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, 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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