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The difference between the Arab media and the Western media in the eyes of Sherif Arafa in Rose Al-Youssef

"Be warned not to approach a Christian character in a novel, a movie or a soap opera, unless you portray them as pure angels that never make anything wrong. Otherwise you will be accused of anti-Christianity." -- Gamal Asaad, Rose Al-Youssef

"Usually security apparatus handpicks the villagers who meet the head of the Policies Committee so as not to be faced with an embarrassing situation." -- Diaa Rashwan, Al-Shorouk

"When a university student stood up during a meeting with the Prime Minister last week in Port Said and told Nazif that he felt corruption everywhere he went and felt that Egypt was no longer his homeland, I was amazed at the reaction of his fellow students who were attending the meeting. They kept clapping and cheering for over five minutes in support of what that student said." -- Sayed Abdel-Ati, Sawt Al-Umma

"Fatah is suffering from the absence of its leadership, failures, mushrooming of corruption and gaining illicit money" -- Marwan Barghouti, Lebanese Al-Akhbar

"Fatah movement has transformed into a faction and is no longer reflecting the image of the Palestinian people. And with the absence of Yasser Arafat Hamas has risen to fill in the void created as a result of the demise of Fatah." -- Abdallah Iskandar, Al-Hayat

"Regardless of the obscene way in which the man talked about his sexual experiences and his abuse of his position to have sexual experiences, he in fact did not talk about weird things. All what he said on LBC is widely known among Saudi youth. The only sin this man has committed was to talk about this issue on a satellite channel, a sin that will never be forgiven by a society living a double life -- one in secret and another in public." -- Badr Al-Ibrahim, Lebanese Al-Akhbar