Global Voices Online

From Qatar, Bahraini blogger Ammar Talk [ar] posts pictures of children around cannons, fired to signal the time to break one's fast in Ramadhan.

Kuwaiti Frankom [Ar] found a rabbit outside the mosque … and shot it - with his mobile phone's camera, of course.

Dr Net, from Qatar, introduces his readers to Browser Shots, a open source which enables users to make screenshots of their web design in different browsers.

Ahmad [Ar] announces to his readers and to Syrian bloggers the launch of a new Syrian blog aggregator, AL-MUDAWWEN, and asks bloggers from his country to add their blogs here.

Amr Fahham [Ar], from Damascus, appeals for help to save a rare Damascene flower - the Damascene Sawsan (

السوسن الدمشقي

), from extinction. He says that it only grows on Mountain Qassun.

From Saudi Arabia, Abdulla Abulkhair [Ar] posts the pictures of a luxury car, which belongs to an Arab prince, being towed away in London for illegal parking. “He thought he would be treated like in his own country,” he quips.

Lebanese blog Letters features summer fashions which highlight Arabic Kufi calligraphy patterns in this photo post.

Kuwaiti Frankom [ar] links to a video on hacking a highway electronic sign and says he liked the idea it contained - whether it was fake or real.

Algerian linguist Lameen Souag poses the following question for his readers: “Are any readers familiar with skinks? What would you call them?”