Global Voices Online

Harvard University's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society has released a study of the Arabic blogosphere entitled Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere. About 35,000 active blogs were covered. “The goal for the study was to produce a baseline assessment of the networked public sphere in the Arab Middle East, and its relationship to a range of emergent issues, including politics, media, religion, culture, and international affairs,” announced the centre.

Kuwaiti blogger ZDisrict visited Amman, Jordan, and shares his impressions in this post.

Kuwaiti blogger ZDistrict reviews Dan Brown's blockbuster Angels and Demons in this post. “I really recommend this movie, but I’m assuming if watched in Kuwait it will be really chopped up because it has so many religious references,” he notes.

Kwtia, from Kuwait, lashes out at fanatics in this post: “Fear, paranoia and sexual obsessions are unfortunately the calling cards of these fanatics who want the world in little tiny simplistic boxes that are too small and too weak to hold in the crazily gorgeous multiplicity of possibilities offered up by science and art and the ability to love and create and be brave.”

Kuwaiti The Aggressor discusses who makes a good parliamentarian in this post.

From Kuwait, Hilaliya discusses why the government shuns young Kuwaitis.

Ansam, from Kuwait, shares this conversation between her seven-year-old nephew and her sister on school.

Kuwaiti 4th ring posts a photograph of a police car - where the word police is misspelt in both Arabic and English.

“The poor Qatteri Cat with his luxurious thick furry coat starts getting a little uncomfortable around this time of the year, when the temperatures rise, and by May or June, he starts getting lumps in his fur - no matter how often I comb him,” notes intlxpatr, who lives in Kuwait.