Salwa is an Arabic word meaning "solace". It may refer to:
People
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Salwa Abdullah (born 1953), Syrian politician
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Salwa El-Awa, British academic
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Salwa Bakr (born 1949), Egyptian author and critic
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Salwa Bughaighis
Salwa Bugaighis (24 April 1963 – 25 June 2014) was a Libyan human rights and political activist. She was assassinated in Benghazi, Libya on 25 June 2014.
Life and career
Bugaighis was from a prominent Benghazi family and trained as a lawyer a ...
(1964–2014), Libyan human rights and political activist
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Salwa El-Deghali, Libyan academic
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Salwa Fallouh (1920–2008), Syrian painter and illustrator
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Salwa al-Jassar (born 1957), Kuwaiti politician
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Sally ("Salwa") Shatila Kader, Lebanese-American peace activist
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Salwa Al Katrib (1953–2009), Lebanese singer
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Salwa Abu Khadra (1929-2024), Palestinian politician and educator
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Princess Salwa Aga Khan (born 1988), American model, wife of Prince Rahim Aga Khan
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Salwa Eid Naser (born 1998), Bahraini track sprinter
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Salwa Al Neimi, Syrian writer and feminist
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Salwa Toko (born 1975), French diversity and digital literacy activist
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Salwa Zeidan, Lebanese artist
Places
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Salwa, Kuwait, an area in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait
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Salwa Kingdom
Salwa (also written as Śalva halva is a kingdom grouped among the western kingdoms in the epic Mahabharata. It was close to Madra kingdom as both are mentioned together in many places. Saubha was its capital. Martikavati (alias Matika, Matrika, ...
, an ancient Indian kingdom in the ''Mahabharata''
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Salwa, Saudi Arabia, a settlement at the southwest corner of the Gulf of Salwah, endpoint of the
Salwa Highway
Other uses
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LORAN-C transmitter Salwa
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Salwa Canal, proposed shipping route through Saudi Arabia along its border with Qatar
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Salwa Judum, an anti-Naxalite movement in Chhattisgarh, India
See also
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Gulf of Salwah, the southern portion of the Gulf of Bahrain
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Salva (disambiguation)
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Salwah, a village in Idlib Governorate, Syria
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