'''Handal''' ({{langx|ar|حنضل}}, meaning "bitter colocynth"<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncMPfjLn_M0C&pg=PA61 |page=61 |chapter=The Epic Arab Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man |first=Susan |last=Slyomovics |title=Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community |editor1-first=Margaret |editor1-last=Beissinger |editor2-first=Jane |editor2-last=Tylus |editor3-first=Susanne Lindgren |editor3-last=Wofford |publisher=University of California Press |year=1999 |isbn=9780520210387}}</ref>) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Esteban Handal Perez (born 1965), Honduran politician *Muna Handal-Dayeh (born 1957), Palestinian Arab-American businesswoman *Nathalie Handal (born 1969), French-American poet and writer *Nils Handal (1906–1992), Norwegian politician *Schafik Hándal (1930–2006), Salvadoran politician *William Handal Raudales (born 1945), Honduran politician *William Jacobo Handal (1951–2017), Salvadoran politician *Handal, an evil king in the epic ''Taghribat Bani Hilal''
==See also== *Handala *Hindal, a Sikh religious leader
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Category:Arabic-language surnames