Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat (Arabic: مريم محمد يوسف فرحات), or Mariam Farahat (24 December 1949 – 17 March 2013), popularly known as Umm Nidal (Arabic: أم نضال), "the mother of Nidal", or "Khansa of Palestine" (Arabic: خنساء فلسطين), was a Palestinian politician, member of parliament in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and one of Hamas' candidates elected in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election. The word "Nidal" in Arabic is a term, meaning "struggle", "effort" or "work". She was one of the prominent Islamist female leaders in Palestine.