Iraqi Tea-Tender Plays Musical Tea-Cups for his Regulars

Musical tea phenomenon! An Iraqi tea tender clanks away with his tea-cups to make chai-music; Meet the Egyptian presidential candidates, in a graphic, user-friendly chart by face; Kuwait's Sunni-Shia Twitter war; Iran threatens to turn against its own internet with a shut-down.

Boing Boing [5]

Playing a delightful tune on teacups

An Iraqi tea boy or tea-tender makes music of his tea experience! Check out the video (left).

Karl Remarks [6]

The Graphic Guide to Egypt's Presidential Elections

This is brilliant, with a wonderful precious chart so that you can click on these quaint Egyptian 'heads' "Introducing the Beardometer, a political sliding scale for understanding Egypt's presidential elections."

The Next Web: Middle East [7]

Kuwait hands out 7 year jail sentence in yet another Twitter-related arrest

A Sunni-Shia thing visits Kuwait's Twitter: "A writer in Kuwait has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a series of tweets that are said to have slandered Shiite Muslims in the country."

The Next Web: Middle East [8]

Iran denies reports it will shut down the Internet by August, but National Internet plans are still on

Another TNW, and another country at logger heads with its internet: "With reports emerging this morning that Iran’s final online crackdown would take place in August, completely shutting down access to the Internet, denials have begun to circulate, according to AFP."