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Clockwise from top: Al-Wafd portrayed the Egyptian citizen interminably awaiting a cabinet change. Al-Ra'i depicted a train proceeding along the ambiguous roadmap track. Another cartoon in Al-Ra'i showed America playing the oil game. Al-Akhbar drew Arabs and Afghanis enjoying a common denominator, which is the drug trade

"Our rulers have learnt that freedom of speech can be tolerated, to a degree. But this is on condition that it does not entail action, organisation, or contact with the public." -- Sherif Hatata, Al-Ahali, 23 July

"Iraq, known in the dictionary of archaeology as the cradle of civilisation, has turned into the American West, ruled and controlled by bloodthirsty cowboy gangs." -- Alaa Al-Lami, As-Safir, 24 July

"Terrorism by corpses is the greatest of all forms of terrorism." -- Talal Salman, As-Safir, 26 July

"Increased salaries for journalists is a right, not a an act of charity to be bestowed on them from on high. To view increased salaries as charity in effect amounts to seeing them as bribery." -- Abdel-Halim Qandil, Al-Arabi, 27 July

"Let the Iraqis be" -- Ahmed Al-Rab'i, Asharq Al-Awsat, 27 July

"Mubarak: I called on Washington to form an Iraqi military ruling council, and they replied 'soldiers again?'" -- Asharq Al-Awsat, 27 July