![[Future Movement (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb}fm1.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 14 Feb 2010
Last modified: 2020-07-31 by ian macdonald
Keywords: rafik hariri | future youth | future movement | sun: 8 points (white) | cedar | tree : cedar (white) | tree : cedar (green) | ring (blue) | text: arabic (blue) | text: arabic (white) |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
image by Eugene Ipavec, 14 Feb 2010
See also:
Sky-blue flag with one-half of a twelve-rayed "hollow" white sun emerging centered from the hoist.
Sometimes the party name is written in white in the fly.
Eugene Ipavec, 28 Feb 2012
![[Future Movement (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb}fm2.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 14 Feb 2010 |
![[Future Movement (Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb}fm3.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 Feb 2012 |
Illustrations of several party flags can be seen on a Lebanese political blog.
Dave Martucci, 29 Jun 2009
These are images of FPM political posters. One of the party flags shown is a variant of the Future Movement.
Eugene Ipavec, 29 Jun 2009
![[Rafik Hariri Memorial Flag, Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb}rhari.gif) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, N.J. and Eugene Ipavec, 26 Oct 2007 |
![[Future Movement (?), Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb}bufe2.gif) image by António Martins-Tuválkin, N.J. and Eugene Ipavec, 26 Oct 2007 |
Flickr shows a photo of flags in a demonstration
in Lebanon, taken on Feb 14th, 2007. Regular LB national flags, as usual, and some political flags. The most prominent of
these is not in [the LB pages].
It looks like a regular LB national flag with blue instead of red and someone's likeness in b/w added to the hoist
side white space, slightly overlaping the tree, and a smaller regular LB national flag added vertically to the fly.
While the image and the flyside FoF may be improvised, the blue-for-red LB national flag seems to be carefully and
purposefully manufactored.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 Oct 2007
I think that may be a caricature of the late PM Rafic Hariri (compare to photo at
Wikipedia). There are many flags of the youth section of
his Future Movement in the crowd too, and of allied parties. The blue-for-red Lebanese flag may be that of the
Future Movement itself, by the way – it is the only one among the major Lebanese parties to lack a
distinctive flag (excepting the much smaller DRM.)
Eugene Ipavec, 27 Oct 2007
![[Future Youth (Future Movement, Lebanon)]](../images/l/lb}futyo.gif)
image by André Coutanche, 15 Jun 2007
The BBC caried some of the funeral of assasinated Lebanese MP Walid Eido today. Only one flag other than that
of Lebanon was in evidence; quite a number of them were shown being waved by the mourners. It was white, with an
emblem made of two curved arrows in a sort of Yin-Yang arrangement, one yellow and the other sky-blue
(also resembling a "Recycling" sign with one arrow missing). The symbol was enclosed in a double ring of thin
(darker) blue lines, with a circular inscription between them. The only part I could read was the English word "YOUTH" at the bottom.
Eugene Ipavec, 14 Jun 2007
I think we must have seen the same footage. Like you, I automatically assumed I was looking at a double arrow
"yin-yang" symbol, which shows how we often see what we expect to see – 'cause it ain't! I also noticed the
word "Youth," and closer analysis of the clip frame by frame showed that it was saying "Future Youth" – and googling did the rest.
"Future Youth" seems to be the youth wing of the late Rafic Hariri's "Future" movement. Its symbol is a blue
arrow moving anti-clockwise from the "south" point to the "east" point against a white cedar of Lebanon with
an orange background, which both Eugene and I initially perceived as a double arrow. The shade of blue on the
flags seems variable, many of them being a darker blue, but the logo on the website
(and on the website of the American branch) is clearly a lighter blue.
A photo shows the sea of flags at the funeral; another
shows the "Future Youth" name (this large version of the flag also has additional writing on it in Arabic, but this seems to be a one-off).
André Coutanche, 15 Jun 2007
The inscription in Arabic is "shabab al-mustakbil" which not oddly means the same...
Dov Gutterman, 15 Jun 2007
Apparently spelled "شبـاب المستقبل"
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 Jun 2007
