"الوطن الأكبر","Al Watan Al Akbar","The Great Homeland"- Egyptian/UAR Patriotic Song. Alternate Ver.

Subtitles may be timed incorrectly by a few milliseconds since I'm still learning how to edit

Lyrics will start at 1:98

Al-Watan Al-Akbar (Arabic: الوطن الأكبر, translated The Greatest Homeland) is a Pan-Arab musical created in Egypt. The song was composed by the Egyptian Mohammed Abdel Wahab who was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known for his Romantic and Egyptian patriotic songs. in 1960 he composed Al-Watan Al-Akbar, and it was arranged by composer Ali Ismael, with lyrics by poet Ahmad Shafik Kamal.

This is the 1962 recording of Al Watan Al Akbar which is longer and has extra segments from Abdel Halim


Song may be also known as "The Great Nation or The Great Country" in English translation (Refering to the United Arab Republic)

I can't seem to find any Arab translations of this version of the song so I simply translated it myself, so I unfortunately can't include any lyrics here

Original version:    • الوطن الاكبر - عبد الحليم يغني 3 كوبل...  

Different versions:
   • "Al Watan Al Akbar" - Pan-Arabic Patr...   Ingen's version from 1959?
   • [REUPLOAD]United Arab Republic Patrio...   Remastered version from the 2000s with better audio quality


Pictures used in video:

1:03-1:56 Photo of Arabs protesting against Tyranny in the Arab Spring

1:56-2:02 Photo of Arabs protesting against Tyranny in the Arab Spring and holding a banner of all Arab flags combined

2:02-2:55 Photo of the Anti-British Free Officers group which planned the Egyptian Independent coup of 1952

2:55-3:55 Photo of Arabs protesting against Tyranny in the Arab Spring and holding a banner of all Arab flags combined

3:55-4:48 Photo of Arab protesting against Tyranny and Injustice during the Arab Spring

4:48-6:14 Photo of Nasser in the newly made "United Arab Republic" UN seat

6:14-7:00 Picture of British Soldiers retreating from Port Said and leaving Egypt

7:00-8:18 Picture of Egyptians celebrating Nasser's victory and Nationalization of the Suez Canal

8:26-10:02 Photo of an Egyptian crowd thanking Nasser and holding a portrait of him

10:02-10:56 Photo of Egyptians celebrating after their independence in 1952 with Nasser (not shown) In the middle

10:11-14:33 Same as above but a different angle

14:33-14:39 Photo of British troops occupying Port Said after refusing to exit Egypt peacefully
(kinda regret not showing this in the verse where they talked about the defeat in port said)

14:39-15:21 Photo of Nasser's Funeral


"It has been said in the foreign press that I am the first Egyptian to govern Egypt since Cleopatra. Such words flatter but they do not align with our knowledge of our own history. For the sake of glorifying our own Blessed Movement, are we to say that the Fatimads were never Egyptian despite their centuries in Egypt? Do we now deny our kinship with the Ayyubids because of their origin even as we join Saladin's eagle with the Liberation Flag as the symbol of our Revolution? And what of the members of the Mohammed Ali dynasty? Should our grievances against the former King and the flawed and corrupt rulers before him blind us to the nationalism of Abbas Hilmi II, whose devotion to Egypt against the occupiers cost him his throne, or the achievements of Ibrahim Pasha, the very best of the dynasty, who himself declared that the Sun of Egypt and the water of the Nile had made him Egyptian? Are we now to go through the family histories of all Egyptians and invalidate those born to a non-Egyptian parent? If so, I must start with myself. It is fairer and more accurate to say that we are all Egyptians, but I am the first Egyptian to have been raised from the ranks of the people to the highest office to govern Egypt as one of their own. It is an honour and a sacred burden great enough without the embellishments that foreign observers would add to it." - Mohammed Naguib