# Adwan

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**Adwan** (also spelled **Edwan**, Arabic: عدوان) may refer to:

## People

- [Atef Adwan](/source/Atef_Adwan) (born 1952), Palestinian politician
- Banu 'Adwan, a division of the Banu 'Amr tribe, which is a branch of the [Zahran tribe](/source/Zahran_tribe).
- [Georges Adwan](/source/Georges_Adwan) (born 1947), Lebanese politician
- [Imad Al-Adwan](/source/Imad_Al-Adwan) (born 1988), Jordanian politician
- [Kamal Adwan](/source/Kamal_Adwan), PLO spokesman killed in 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon
- [Mamdouh Adwan](/source/Mamdouh_Adwan) (1941-2004) Syrian Poet and writer
- [Nimr ibn Adwan](/source/Nimr_ibn_Adwan) (1735–1823) Jordanian [poet](/source/Poet) and chieftain

## Places

- [Adwan, Syria](/source/Adwan,_Syria), village in southern Syria
- [Qarn Bin `Adwan](/source/Qarn_Bin_%60Adwan), a village in the Hadhramaut Governorate in eastern Yemen

## See also

- [Jamilah bint Adwan](/source/Jamilah_bint_Adwan) (born 180 CE), an ancestor of the Islamic prophet Muhammad on both his paternal and maternal sides
- [Adwan Rebellion](/source/Adwan_Rebellion) or the Balqa Revolt, a 1923 revolt, the largest uprising against the newly established Transjordanian government, headed by Mezhar Ruslan, during its first years

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