Iraq
"موطني" "Mawtini" (My Homeland)
Words by: Ibrahim Touqan
Music by: Mohammad Flayfel
Adopted: 2004
After the ousting of the Saddam Hussein government, Iraq selected a new national anthem, "Mawtini", also a popular folk tune throughout the Arab world. It was sung by the Palestinians in their uprisings against the British mandate and the Jewish immigration to British Palestine in 1936-1939 (the anthem is also an unofficial anthem of Palestine), and continues to be popular with Arabs today. The author of the lyrics is the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Touqan.
Special thanks to: Reinhard Popp for informing me about this anthem, and to Michael Bristow for some of the information.
See also: Iraq (1924-1958), Iraq (1959-1965, 2003-2004), Iraq (1965-1981), Iraq (1981-2003), Kurdistan.