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Lebanon's summer, by Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat

"The ministry [of housing] has realised that we are a society that sires excessively without limits." -- Sherif El-Abd, Al-Ahram

"Some parents are ready to sell all what they own in order that their children appear coming from well-to-do parents in front of their friends." -- Hossameddin El-Amir, Nahdet Masr

"Our insistence to lock the Palestinians in camps and treat them like animals in the name of preserving the issue is far worse a crime than Israel stealing land and causing the displacement of Palestinians." -- Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashed, Asharq Al-Awsat

"It would not be an exaggeration to say that what is called politics in Arab life is nothing but a bloody game played by parties which lack political legitimacy." -- Hazem Saghieh, Al-Hayat