Tahrir

Taḥrīr, Arabic: تحرير is a word of Arabic origin, meaning liberation.

Uses of Tahrir include:

Organization names using Tahrir include:

  • Afwaj al-Tahrir. Battalion de la Liberation (BL) in French. Liberation Battalion was a small, shadowy terrorist organization dedicated to attacking Syrian Army forces in Lebanon during the mid-late 1980s
  • Al Tahrir is an Eritrean football club
  • Fatah is a reverse acronym Fatḥ (or Fatah) of ḥarakat al-taḥrīr al-waṭanī al-filasṭīnī, meaning the "Palestinian National Liberation Movement"; Fatah is the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
  • Haraka Tahrir Sudan - The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (Arabic: حركة تحرير السودانḥarakat taḥrīr as-Sūdan) (abbreviated as either SLM or SLA) is a Sudanese rebel group
  • Harakat Tahrir - Liberation Movement to work for the independence of Western Sahara
  • Harakit al-Taḥrīr al-Watani Al-Ahwazi, National Liberation Movement of Ahwaz (NLMA), is an organization calling for a free independent Arab State called Ahwaz
  • Hizb ut-Tahrir - an international pan-Islamist and fundamentalist political organisation whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as a caliphate ruled by Islamic law
  • Jabhat al-Tahrir al-Lubnaniyya. Front de Liberation Libanais (FLL) in French. Lebanese Liberation Front (LLF) was a mainly Christian underground terrorist group formed in 1987
  • Jabhat at-Taḥrīr al-Waţanī. Front de Libération Nationale (FLN). National Liberation Front (Algeria) is a socialist political party
  • Jayshu-t-tahrīr. The Army of Liberation (French : Armée de Libération). Moroccan Army of Liberation was a force fighting for the independence of Morocco in the late 1950s; also transliterated Jaish[broken anchor]
  • Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir. Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc is a Sunni, liberal, and secularist Iraqi political party
  • Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīniyyat - the Palestine Liberation Organization
  • Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Washington, D.C.

Other place names using Tahrir include:

Other uses of Tahrir include:

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