Horizontally divided red-white-black flag with the emblem showing the so-called eagle of Saladin in the middle of the white stripe.
The emblem in the middle of the white stripe is sometimes pictured with different colours. Some flags seen in Cairo has the emblem as gold, white, gold; or red, white, black; or light gold hatching, white, dark gold hatching; or white, white, white with two gold vertical lines to divide the three parts. The artistical licence regarding the representation of this arms is very high.

On the pedestal, on which the so-called Saladin's eagle stands, appears in Arabic script the national name Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiya. The eagle carries on its breast a shield with the flag's colors - but with a vertical instead of a horizontal configuration. After the end of the United Arab Republic in 1961 the eagle carried two stars in this place until 1971. Between 1972 and 1984 the eagle was replaced by the golden hawk.