Haraka or Harakah in Standard Arabic means movement, and the term is found in the name or acronym of many political organizations in North Africa and the Middle East, such as:
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba: Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary group Harakah (newspaper): newspaper published by Malaysian Islamic Party Hamas: acronym for Ḥarakah al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah (movement of Islamic resistance) Harakat 23 Mars: Marxist Leninist movement in Morocco Harakat Ansar Iran: Sunni militant organization in Iran Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen: Sunni Islamist military and political organization based in Somalia
In Urdu, the term Harkat has the same usage: Harkat-ul-Mujahideen: Islamist Jihadist organization in Pakistan Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami: Pakistani Islamist extremist terrorist organisation
Haraka may also refer to: A type of Arabic diacritics Haraka (software), an email server software Haraka (hash function), a cryptographic hash function