Al-Furat
# Al-Furat

Furat, Forat, Foorat, Al-Furat, Al-Foorat or Al-Forat may refer to:

## Places

* Euphrates (Arabic: الفرات‎, al-Furāt), the longest river in West Asia
   * Al-Furat Dam, or Tabqa Dam, upstream from Raqqa, Syria
* Forat, Iran, a village in Semnan Province

## People

* Banu'l-Furat, a 9th–10th century Shia family of civil functionaries of the Abbasid Caliphate
   * Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Furat (died 904)
   * Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat (855–924)
   * Abu'l-Abbas ibn al-Furat (died 1014/5)
   * Ja'far ibn al-Furat (921–1001)
* Ibn al-Furat (1334–1405), an Egyptian historian
* Asad ibn al-Furat (759–828), a jurist and theologian from Ifriqiya
* Bruce Forat, an electronics engineer, founder of Forat Electronics
* Mun'im Furat (1900–1972), an Iraqi artist

## Media

* Al Forat, a satellite TV network in Iraq
* Al-Furat (newspaper, Deir ez-Zor), a newspaper in Deir ez-Zor, Syria
* Al-Furat (newspaper, Australia), an Arabic-language newspaper in New South Wales, Australia
* AlFurat Media Center, an Islamic State media organization

## Other uses

* Al-Forat FC, an Iraqi football club
* Al-Furat University, a university in Deir ez-Zor, Syria
* Forat F9000, a drum machine and MIDI sequencer
   * Forat F16, drum machine
