Al-watan (Arabic: الوطن), meaning homeland, heimat, country, or nation, may refer to:

Politics

Al-Watan means 'national' in Arabic and in Persian (وطن), the articles titles on Wikipedia for political parties are sometimes translated as 'national', sometimes as 'al-watan', 'al-watani' or 'watani'. Wataniyya may also refer to State-based ('patriotic') nationalism (see Egyptian nationalism), as opposed to Qawmiyya, ethnic-based Arab nationalism

Songs

Publications

It is commonly used as the name of Arabic-language newspapers, as well as newspapers in other languages that have borrowed the word:

  • Al-Watan (Bahrain), an Arabic daily newspaper published in Bahrain
  • Watan News, online Jordanian news agency
  • Al-Watan (Kuwait), a Kuwaiti Arabic-language defunct daily published by the Al Watan publishing house
  • Al-Watan Daily, a daily English-language newspaper published in Kuwait
  • Alwatan (Oman), an Arabic daily newspaper published in Oman
  • Al Watan (Palestine), a Hamas-owned newspaper shut down by Palestinian authorities in 1996
  • Al-Watan (Qatar), a daily morning Arabic-language political newspaper based in Doha, Qatar
  • Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia), a daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia
  • Al-Watan (Syria), an Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Syria
  • Al-Watwan (Comoros), a Comorian French-language and Comorian Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Moroni, Comoros
  • El Watan, an Algerian newspaper
  • Nawai Watan, a Balochi newspaper in Pakistan
  • Vatan, a Turkish newspaper

Places

Other uses

  • Watan (film), a 1938 Indian film
  • Watan Group, a telecommunications and security company in Afghanistan
  • Pader Watan, a military unit in the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
  • Watan Order, the highest national order of Turkmenistan
  • Watan, a historical land allotment in India owned by a Watandar
  • Ardulfurataini, national anthem of Iraq from 1981 to 2003
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