The success of Egypt’s opposition newspaper Ad-Dustour is partly the result of its policy to attract the best of the country’s cartoonists. But do cartoons have the power to change people?

‘Perhaps not, but at least we are doing what we can.’

These two cartoonists express ideas through their art that wouldn’t be tolerated in written form.

This article originally appeared in Menassat in December 2007. (click to read)