Tahrir

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

Uses of Tahrir include:

Al Tahrir - an Egyptian daily
Tahrir al-Wasilah - a book authored by Ayatollah Khomeini
Tahrir Square - major public square in Cairo (also in Baghdad)
Tahrir Square Development - Proposed first phase in Baghdad Renaissance Plan; Liberation Square is Baghdad's biggest and most central square

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, or the 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:

At Tahrir District is a district in Sana'a, Yemen

Other uses of Tahrir include:

Wisam Al-Tahrir (Arabic: وسام التحرير) (Liberation Medal) - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait) issued by the government of Kuwait
Tahrir defterleri were tax registers developed in the Ottoman Empire.

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