Salwa Explained

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