Flag of the Arab Revolt

Arab Revolt

Flag of Hejaz
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	10 June 1917
Design	A red triangle based at the hoist to which three parallel horizontal colours are attached, black at the top, followed by green in the middle and white at the bottom.
Designed by	Mark Sykes

The flag of the Arab Revolt (Arabic: علم الثورة العربية), also used as the flag of Hejaz (Arabic: علم مملكة الحجاز), was a flag used by Hussein bin Ali and his allies, the Arab nationalists, during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and as the first flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz. It was designed by Mark Sykes, but is highly reminiscent of previous Arab flags, such as the flags of the al-Muntada al-Adabi, al-ʽAhd and al-Fatat.

The flag consists of three horizontal stripes (black, white, and green) and a red triangle on the hoist side, using Islamic religious tradition, each color has a symbolic meaning: black represents the Abbasid dynasty or the Rashidun caliphs, white represents the Umayyad dynasty, and green represents Islam (or possibly, but it is not certain, the Fatimid dynasty). The red triangle represents the Hashemite dynasty, to which Hussein bin Ali belonged.

The flag became a symbol of Arab nationalism and unity and the colors derived from it are still used today in various forms in the flags of Jordan, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Palestine, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and Libya.

The Arab revolt flag influenced the related Arab Liberation Flag, which was adopted as a result of the 1952 Egyptian revolution. The tricolor flag consists of red, white, and black horizontal stripes. Variants of the flag are currently used as the national flags of Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen.