Watan

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