Middle East Flags
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What insights about the cultural geography of the Middle can we glean by analyzing the flags of the region?
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Middle East Flags
- 2. Lebanon Turkey Iraq Egypt Syria Kuwait Libya Bahrain Qatar TRNC Saudi Arabia Algeria Morocco Yemen Iran Tunisia Oman Jordan UAE Israel Afghanistan
- 3. Lebanon Turkey Iraq Egypt Syria Kuwait Libya Bahrain Qatar TRNC Saudi Arabia Algeria Morocco Yemen Iran Tunisia Oman Jordan UAE Israel Afghanistan Iraq
- 5. Saddam Huessein Era Flag 2008 New Flag (temporary) Proposed Flag-2004
Editor's Notes
- Black=Determination, power and authority/Oil (Abaysid Dynasty) White=Virtue and Purity (Umayad Dynasty) Green=Islam Red=Blood spilled, Arab nationalism Crescent Moon and Star-Ottoman Empire 1911-conference
- Black=Determination, power and authority/Oil (Abaysid Dynasty) White=Virtue and Purity (Umayad Dynasty) Green=Islam Red=Blood spilled, Arab nationalism Crescent Moon and Star-Ottoman Empire 1911-conference
- Black=Determination, power and authority/Oil (Abaysid Dynasty) White=Virtue and Purity (Umayad Dynasty) Green=Islam Red=Blood spilled, Arab nationalism Crescent Moon and Star-Ottoman Empire 1911-conference
- Crescent=Islam, Blue Lines=Tigris and Euphrates, Yellow strip=Kurdish minority.
- Aluha Akbar was in Saddam’s handwriting in 1991---1)Stop Kuwaiti desecration of the flag. 2) get support from Clerics Stars were a symbol of the Sunnis.
- composite of various elements representing different facets of Islamic life: Allah, the Book, the Sword, the five principles of Islam , balance, unity, neutrality, and the universal government of the downtrodden. "There is no god but God"