Watan Explained

Watan (Arabic: وطن) or Al-Watan with the definite article al- (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.

• Watani Party or Al-Watani Party, a former Egyptian party
• Homeland Party (Libya), or Al-Watan Party, a Libyan party
• National Party (Syria), or Al-Watani Party, a former Syrian party
• Al-Watan Party (Tunisia), or Al-Watan Party, a centrist party in Tunisia
• Otan (political party), a Kazakh political party
• Watan Party of Afghanistan, an Afghan political party
• Vatan Party, a former Iranian party
• Patriotic Party (Turkey), a Turkish political party

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 (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), a Syrian 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 (1923 newspaper), Turkish newspaper published 1923–1925, and 1940–1978
• Vatan (2002 newspaper), Turkish newspaper published 2002–2018

Places

• Al-Watan, San‘a’, a village in western central Yemen
• Qasr Al Watan, the United Arab Emirates presidential palace and seat of government.

Other uses

• Watan (film), a 1938 Indian film
• Watan (name), a Formosan given name
• 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), national anthem of Iraq from 1981 to 2003

See also

• Vatan (disambiguation)
• Otan (disambiguation)