Salwa

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