Warning of the increasing economic gap in society where the rich get richer at the expense of the poor, Al-Tagammu', of the left-wing Al-Tagammu' Party, reprinted a 20-year-old cartoon of its sister publication Al-Ahali. A bunch of fat cats are enjoying a very big meal "at the expense of Sayed Effendi" a poor civil servant who can't afford to have something to eat alongside his cup of coffee. In Al-Akhbar, Mustafa Hussein reflects on the public's frustration with the high rate of unemployment. A tour guide, pointing to a large number of seated men on the wall of a Pharaonic temple says, "they graduated in Pharaonic times. They're still waiting to find work."