We are all familiar with Egypt and the contribution it made to modern civilization, the monuments that accounts for a great kingdom are still around us. Who would forget the Pyramids at Giza, of the temples and elaborate hypostyle hall, the obelisks, mastaba's and ornaments like the lotus bud or the kheker cresting, designed as a tribute to the deities and man's passage to the afterlife.
Egypt flourished as a nation because of the Nile River, and that its annual inundation brought fertility to the soil and thus maintained its agricultural potential. The arts that developed thereafter were all organic or copied from trees, plants, animals and bugs that thrived near the banks of the Nile River.
Having known the country, can we do the same with the current
Egypt flag? The distinguishing feature of the flag of Egypt is the Eagle of Saladin (a shield superimposed on a golden eagle facing the hoist and above a scroll with the name of the country in Arabic) and placed at the center of the white band. The flag actually is a tricolor of horizontal bands of equal width, red on top, white at the center, and black.
Red refers to the era before the Revolution, where a group of army officers rose to power after deposing King Farouk, the King of Egypt. White symbolizes the time before the 1952 Revolution that ended monarchy without bloodshed. And black symbolizes the end of oppression experienced by the people at the hands of the Monarchy and British colonialism.
Today Egypt is at the center of the Arab world as it controls the Suez Canal (the shortest sea link between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea).
by:
The Flagman
