Salaam

Salaam (also spelled salam) (Arabic: سلام‎ salām, "peace") may refer to:

• Salām, the word for "peace" in Arabic, often used as a greeting, see S-L-M for an overview and As-salamu alaykum for the Muslim greeting
• As-Salām, one of the Names of God in Islam
• Salaam, the name given to the salute that is accompanied by the greeting.

People

Surname

• Waleed Al-Salam, mathematician
• Ephraim Salaam, American football player
• Rashaan Salaam, American football player
• Abdus Salam (name)
• Florin Salam, Romanian manele singer
• Kawther Salam, Palestinian journalist
• Mohammed Ahmed Salam, Yemeni prisoner
• Mullah Salam, Afghan military personnel
• Nawaf Salam, Lebanese diplomat, academic, jurist
• Saeb Salam, Lebanese politician, former prime Minister

Given name

• Salaam bin Said Al Shaksy, Chief executive
• Salaam Remi, American hip hop record producer

Places

• Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania
• Salam, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
• Salam, Mali
• Wadi-us-Salaam, a cemetery

Media

Films

• Salaam Bombay!, a Hindi-language film on street children in Mumbai
• Salaam Dunk, an American documentary
• Salaam Namaste, a Bollywood musical romantic comedy
• Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love, a Bollywood romantic drama
• Say Salaam India, a Hindi-language film on cricket in India

Music

• "Salaam" (song), a popular Israeli folk and peace song
• Salaam (album), an album by the British singer/songwriter, Sami Yusuf
• Salam (album), an album by the Pakistani-Canadian singer, Irfan Makki

Television

• Salaam TV, an independent satellite television channel
• Zee Salaam, an Indian Hindi-Urdu Language Islamic TV Channel by Zee Network.

Other uses

• Lal Salam, a salute, greeting or code word used by communists in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
• Operation Salaam, a 1942 World War II covert Abwehr operation in North Africa led by László Almásy

See also

• El Salam Maritime Transport
• Salim (disambiguation)
• Selam (Australopithecus), a fossil specimen found in Dikika
• Shalom (disambiguation)