Adopted | 1953 (Egypt) 1962 (Yemen) 1963 (Iraq and Syria) 1969 (Libya) 1970 (Sudan) |
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Relinquished | 1977 (Libya) 2024 (Syria) |
Design | Red-white-black horizontal stripes |
Designed by | Free Officers movement (Egypt) |
The Arab Liberation Flag (Arabic: علم التحرير العربي) is a pan-Arab tricolor flag originally adopted by the Free Officers movement following the 1952 Egyptian revolution. The tricolor flag consists of horizontal stripes in red, white, and black.[1][2] The Arab Liberation Flag became a symbol of Arab nationalism, republicanism, and Nasserism, as well as the basis for numerous flags in the Arab world. Today, its variations are used as the national flags of Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, and Sudan, and were formerly used by Syria and Libya.[3]