It Has Been Long, My Weapon

"It Has Been Long, My Weapon" (Arabic: والله زمان يا سلاحي wallah zamān ya silāḥī) is the national anthem of the Union of Arab Republics. It was written in the early 1950s by Salah Jahin, with music by Kamal al-Taweel, and became popular during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Following the crisis, which ended with Egyptian victory over Western aggression and the expulsion of the British from the Suez Canal and its subsequent nationalisation, the song became a popular Arab nationalist anthem. During the 1986–89 Arab Revolutionary Wars, it was used by the Arab Army as a marching song; following the establishment of the Union of Arab Republics in 1996, the song was adopted as the national anthem of the new federation, officially confirmed in the 1999 constitution.