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  • [9] The word "nationalism" here and elsewhere in this document is used as the equivalent of the term wataniyya, which is derived from the Arabic word watan

    unknown title 2009

  • The police also said that the deceased 54 year old Mustafa Saed died from a heart attack and anyways that he was a member of the pro government Nida'a al watan demonstration.

    Daoud Kuttab: The day the Jordanian security lost its professionalism, its neutrality and its credibility Daoud Kuttab 2011

  • The police also said that the deceased 54 year old Mustafa Saed died from a heart attack and anyways that he was a member of the pro government Nida'a al watan demonstration.

    Daoud Kuttab: The day the Jordanian security lost its professionalism, its neutrality and its credibility Daoud Kuttab 2011

  • In the olive grove with my cousins I was inspired to sing the verse from 3al3a dal3ouna that goes "bay bayin ghorbi watan hanoona."

    Dove's Eye View: 2008

  • "A revolutionary council of the armed forces has been established, and our watan will now be known as the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan," Abdul Qader said.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • Our watan is now known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • Its no secret that, what with large hairy Pathans setting off bombs under his buttocks ever third day, the Field-Marshal would love to escape his beloved watan.

    Archive 2005-09-01 ps 2005

  • Its no secret that, what with large hairy Pathans setting off bombs under his buttocks ever third day, the Field-Marshal would love to escape his beloved watan.

    Field-Marshal M. and His Mummy-Ji ps 2005

  • Zouheir Bessa was hit by two bullets in the neck as he entered the Statistics and Planning Institute on Monday, the daily El watan said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • [214] A noticeable trait of these Maratha houses is the fondness with which they clung to the small estates or villages in the Deccan in which they had originally held the office of a patel or village headman as a _watan_ or hereditary right, even after they had carved out for themselves principalities and states in other parts of India.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

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