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A blue field with a white star in the middle. 1970 to present Flag of Sudan: Three horizontal bands of red, white and black and the green isosceles triangle is based on the hoist-side. 2024 to present Flag of Syria: Three horizontal bands of green, white and black and three red five-pointed stars that arranged in the horizontal line in the ...
The four colors also derived their potency from a verse by 14th century Arab poet Safi al-Din al-Hilli: "White are our acts, black our battles, green our fields, and red our swords." [10] Pan-Arab colors, used individually in the past, were first combined in 1916 in the flag of the Arab Revolt or Flag of Hejaz. [11]
The Palestinian version of the keffiyeh The Palestinian keffiyeh is a distinctly patterned black-and-white keffiyeh. White keffiyehs had been traditionally worn by Palestinian peasants and bedouins to protect from the sun, when Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. Its use as a symbol of Palestinian nationalism and resistance dates back to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, which ...
English: Comparison of various middle eastern flags, to provide context for the 2004 Iraq flag proposal Source vector conversion of en:File:Flags_of_the_Middle_East3.png
A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and green; with a red triangle based at the hoist charged with the coat of arms above two crossed white swords in the upper hoist corner. The flag of the State of Palestine ( Arabic : علم فلسطين , romanized : ʿalam Filasṭīn ) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal stripes—black, white ...
The flag consists of horizontal black, white, and green bands that are connected by a red chevron. The colours are the Pan-Arab Colors, respectively representing the Abbasid (black band), Umayyad (white band), and Fatimid or Rashidun caliphates (green band). The red chevron is for the Hashemite dynasty, and the Arab Revolt. [2] [3] [4]
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The flag of the United Arab Emirates (علم دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة) contains the Pan-Arab colors red, green, white, and black. It was designed in 1971 by Abdullah Mohammed Al Maainah, who was 19 years old at that time, and was adopted on 2 December 1971 after winning a nationwide flag design contest.