A New Dawn for the Middle East

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I've always enjoyed designing flags and family seals. Recently with the aid of Inkscape designing has become a much easier process, which is pretty cool as far as I am concerned, but even cooler is their use of WordPress to power their news section.

Something that has been keeping me thinking is a socio-political movement than goes beyond the old-school Pan-Arabism. Some people might wonder why. While some people are very strong supporters if Middle Eastern cultural and political independence they do not identify as Arab and I think we need to make better overtures to have them better represented. A point in case are many Kurds thinkers and freedom fighters who are our natural allies against Imperialism. Another strong case can be made for Iranis who, while technically aren't Middle Eastern, so regularly get lumped in with Middle Easterners that it makes them our allies. In any case, increasing more cultural and political points of view makes for a stronger movement.

New Dawn

So in thinking about flags and a pan-Middle-Eastern movement I came up with a flag I just call "New Dawn." The inspiration came from some Kurdish flags, and the flag uses the traditional pan-Arab colors in addition to yellow which covers the Kurdish red, green and yellow colors. Iran is represented by the red, green and white colors. One comment I've gotten is that the black and yellow combo gives off a nice vibe that says: don't fuck with me. Which I appreciate as the opposite of: I'll fuck with you.