Secular daily paper Al-Watan published 13 cartoons under the slogan "Fight cartoons with cartoons".
The popular El Watan newspaper said such an act would "soothe memories that are still painful".
"Maybe with the coming administration in the United States we can talk about direct negotiations, " he told al-Watan.
If the number and glitziness of posters is anything to go by, el-Watan would win in a landslide.
Al-Watan adds that the taking of European hostages is "only the beginning of a long series of confrontations between such movements and the Western countries".
As Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan reported over the weekend, Iranian Revolutionary Guards are training Houthi rebels in Eritrea and sponsoring their insurgency against the Yemini regime.
One displaced Yarmouk resident told the pro-Assad Al-Watan newspaper that a large number of Syrian armed forces were gathering to the west of the camp Tuesday.
Licensed shops along puddle-filled Watan Street in the city centre have reopened for the first time since they were looted in the wake of the American-led invasion.
The Saudi paper Al-Watan says that it is "quite normal to link what is taking place in Mali with events in Somalia, Algeria and the Arab Maghreb".
"It is important that Syria plays a positive role in the region, " he told Syria's al-Watan newspaper, adding that peace in the Middle East "passes through" Syria and France.
Independent Al-Watan ridicules Islamists' proclamations that the new constitution would bring prosperity to Egypt: the paper's main headline says stability will only be achieved once there are enough dollars.
Al-Watan's founders include the former leader of the Nour Party, a hardline Salafi Islamist group that came second to the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in the last election.
One of al-Watan's founders, Emad Abdel Ghaffour, was Nour Party leader until he quit last week following internal disputes over the role of clerics in decision-making and bickering over internal elections.
The creation of the al-Watan ('Homeland') Party is part of a political landscape that was dominated by a variety of Islamist parties in the last election a year ago, but is still evolving.
An el Watan article reported that US ambassador to Egypt Ann Paterson is meeting all political parties in Egypt to convince them to accept the coming legislative elections rushed by the Muslim Brotherhood.
He unveiled the new party on Tuesday at a news conference alongside Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a popular Salafi preacher who said an Islamist party that he plans to set up would enter an electoral alliance with al-Watan.
And in the opening number, "Da zemong Ziba Watan, " when the full ensemble let loose with Eastern drums tabla, dhol, zirbaghali pounding out the infectious, syncopated rhythm, the audience began to clap along to this tune popularized by Mr. Sarmast's father.
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As a result, Nadjia Bouaricha writes in El Watan , "national public opinion has been the hostage of foreign media outlets distilling snippets of information gleaned from this or that news agency or this or that often doubtful source".
Despite the apparent risk of inadvertently losing their virginity, women are getting involved in sports clubs in Saudi Arabia, to the point that al-Watan which is owned by a member of the Saudi royal family, by the way also has reported that the country is considering forming a ministerial committee to consider the possibility of making those clubs legal.
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