This is a catch-up post. In this May 21 post, the BBC summed up reaction from various key Arab media outlets.

An excerpt:

The Arab press has made relatively little of the Sun's decision to publish photos of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in captivity.

Al-Jazeera decided not to show the Sun's photos

But the story has made more of a mark on the region's TV screens, with the influential al-Jazeera news channel leading the way.

The Qatar-based channel set its stall out in a brief item at the end of its news bulletin, saying that it was unable to show the photos for "professional and moral reasons".

Instead, it showed an old photo of the former Iraqi leader in suit and tie in court.

Yes, this is the al-Jazeera that broadcast video of Western hostages being beheaded in Iraq. There's a reason why they're the Fox News of the Arab world. :)

Here is another excerpt:

Other Arab broadcasters, however, took a slightly different line.

Iraq's al-Sharqiyah chose to show the pictures, and pointed out that the former president looked "worried, far from the splendour in which he used to appear".

However, the channel saw no reason to run the story any earlier than 20 minutes into its bulletin.

The publication of the pictures also earned a mention on Egypt's Nile News TV and Moroccan radio, although purely as the subject of straightforward news reports.

All of the US rhetoric about freedom and respect for human rights is mere nonsense Al-Quds al-Arabi

But the clearest signs of antipathy to the photos surfaced on the pan-Arab TV channel al-Arabiya, in a series of interviews with Iraqis.

"There should be respect for the title of former president, regardless of whether he was a dictator, oppressor or tyrant," one woman told the station.