Maydan

Maydan is also a natural plain for which copious Arabic has many terms, Fayhah or Sath (a plain generally), Khabt (a low-lying plain), Bat’há (a low sandy flat), Mahattah (a plain fit for halting) and so forth.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Last week, five police officers and three intelligence agents were abducted by the Taliban in the Maydan Shah area and beheaded.

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Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said the Afghan police and NDS officers were traveling along a highway between the relatively peaceful province of Bamiyan and Maydan Shah in volatile Wardak when they were kidnapped by as yet unidentified gunmen.

Insurgents killed eight Afghan security officials Reuters 2011

That outreach door swings both ways, says Haroon Moghul, director of Maydan, a Manhattan-based Muslim business and government communication group.

U.S. Muslims try to counter negative perceptions 2011

That outreach door swings both ways, says Haroon Moghul, director of Maydan, a Manhattan-based Muslim business and government communication group.

U.S. Muslims try to counter negative perceptions 2011

Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, said the Afghan police and NDS officers were traveling along a highway between the relatively peaceful province of Bamiyan and Maydan Shah in volatile Wardak when they were kidnapped by as yet unidentified gunmen.

Insurgents killed eight Afghan security officials Reuters 2011

That outreach door swings both ways, says Haroon Moghul, director of Maydan, a Manhattan-based Muslim business and government communication group.

U.S. Muslims try to counter negative perceptions 2011

Despite efforts by the Ansar Hezbollah (Militants of the Party of God) and security services to manufacture a large crowd, the massive Maydan Vali-Asr (Hidden Imam Square) was unfilled.

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It is both and something more; an open space, in or near the city, used for reviewing troops, races, playing the Jeríd (cane-spear) and other sports and exercises: thus Al – Maydan = Gr. hippodrome.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He sat with her and rested till the hour of mid afternoon prayer, when he took horse and repaired, with the Emirs before him, to the Maydan plain, where he played at arms with his father and his lords, till night fall, when he returned to the palace, preceded by all the folk.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006