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It's Arab flag season
Published in The Egyptian Gazette on 03 - 03 - 2011

When the Tunisian revolution began, many Egyptians started selling Tunisian flags in sympathy. Then, when the Egyptian revolt erupted in Cairo's Al Tahrir Square on January 25, the streets were full of people selling the Egyptian flag.
During the 18-day revolution, the national flag, something special for all Egyptians, sold like hot cakes to anti- and pro-Mubarak alike.
Meanwhile, with the eruption of anti- regime protests in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Jordan, the flag selling continues.
“Many people are buying the Lybian flag these days,” said Moustafa Qora, one of the flag sellers. “They are doing so to show their solidarity with the Libyan people and their revolt,” he told the opposition daily Al- Wafd.
Moustafa, who works outside the Arab League headquarters near Al Tahrir, sells Libyan flags for LE30 and LE50, depending on the material and size.
“Sometimes I sell as many as 2,000 Libyan flags per day to Libyans, who live here in Egypt, as they want to send them to the anti-Gaddafi protesters in Libya,” he added.


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