Amman- 1st of Feb, 2016
German-Jordanian University celebrated on Monday , February 1 , 2016, the raising of the Great Arab Revolt banner in the university along with the Jordanian flag on the occasion of His Majesty King Abdullah II Birthday and the 100th anniversary of the Great Arab Revolt.
Prof. Natheer Abu Obeid, President of the University, emphasized that the Great Arab Revolt represents a renaissance revolution and Arab nationalism message that has achieved the aspirations and hopes of the Arab nation about independence and freedom.
The flag was designed in an effort to create a feeling of "Arab-ness" in order to fuel the revolt. Although the Arab Revolt was only very limited in scope and concerted by the British rather than by Arabs themselves, the flag influenced the national flag of a number of emerging Arab states after World War I. Flags inspired by that of the Arab revolt include those of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Sudan , Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, the Palestine national movement, also used by the PLO and by the Palestinian Authority, Somaliland , the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Libya.
It is worthy to mention that the horizontal colors stand for the Abbasid (black), Umayyad (white) and Fatimid (green) Caliphates. The red triangle refers to the Hashemite dynasty.