Harem (disambiguation)

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May have the following possible meanings:

• Harem, the ḥarîm حريم (cf. ḥaram) is the part of the household forbidden to male strangers
• Imperial Harem (Ottoman), in the Seraglio palace of Topkapi, was a major part of the Ottoman Sultan's court
• polygyny
  • Harem in zoology, animal polygyny

in popular culture

• Harem (film), a 1985 film starring Nastassja Kinski and Ben Kingsley
• Harem (album), a 2003 album by singer Sarah Brightman
  • "Harem" (song), the title song from the Sarah Brightman album
  • The Harem Tour CD, the CD from Sarah Brightman's tour
  • The Harem World Tour: Live From Las Vegas, the live Sarah Brightman tour CD
• Harem (genre), an anime subgenre

in geography

• Harem, Syria a city in Syria
• Harem (Istanbul neighbourhood), a neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey

Biblical

• Harem (also Arem), one of the forefathers of the Jews in Babylonian exile in the Biblical Book of Nehemiah (7:35)

[edit] See also

• HAREM, a Portuguese named entity recognition systems evaluation contest, held in 2005 and 2006