These are some of the more memorable quotations to emerge from the news this weekend:

"Everyone is dreaming of what he looks like. The face of Tutankhamun is different from any king in the Cairo museum. With his beautiful buck teeth, the tourists will see a little bit of the smile from the face of the golden boy."

-- Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, at the unveiling Sunday of King Tut's face in the historic city of Luxor (AP)

"We have also introduced important amendments to laws governing publishing offenses, and we abolished many of these offenses. Additionally, we abolished prison sentences for most of these offenses."

-- Gamal Mubarak, the son and possible successor of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, describing reforms to Egyptian media laws Sunday at the ruling party's annual conference in Cairo. (Egyptian television)

"Almost three years have passed since the (Egyptian) president made his promise to put an end to the imprisonment of journalists in publishing cases. He has not fulfilled that promise, nor even kept things as they were. On the contrary, the trend of imprisoning journalists and writers has worsened, which makes us wonder: Have we misunderstood the promise? Was it 'an increase' rather than 'an end' to prison sentences in publishing cases that the president promised?"

-- Gamal Eid, director of the Arabic Network of Human Rights Info (HRinfo), in a news release dated Oct. 29

"The Americans threaten once and give in ten times because they know that the Iranian nation is greater and more stable than the threats."

-- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, speaking Sunday as thousands gathered in Tehran to mark the 28th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy during the Islamic Revolution

"Condoleezza Rice speaks about Lebanon as if it is an American state. The immoral and blunt U.S. interference in Lebanon's internal affairs has been clearly demonstrated."

- Pro-government Syrian newspaper Tishrin. U.S. officials made similar accusations about Syrian meddling in Lebanon's thorny debate over who will be the next president.

"He is the tyranny of Libya and is dragging the country to the swamp."

-- Abu Laith al-Libi, a Libyan al Qaida commander in Afghanistan, speaking about Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi on a recently released tape from the militant group