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Donya-ye Computer va Ertebatat (World of Computer and Communication): Mohammad Mehdi Molayi, Mahmud Orujzadeh: Iranian old web visitors remember once the number of Persian language websites covering news about Iran were so few. From then on it is 6 or 7 years and during this period a lot of Persian websites have been entered the virtual world, therefore; these days Iranian operators are facing a lot of Persian contexts in the internet. More



The Progress in Iranian Weblogs
Pendar.net / Nima Afshar Naderi : After 4 years of begin of Blogging in Iran, Persian Weblogeer begin to english writing.Parastoo Dokouhaki, The women-journalist in Tehran who that won the prize of DW Radio (The official radio of Germany) for her Weblog "Zan Nevesht"(women-whrited) build her english online pages and writing about his challenge , she writed the post with title of "Cry virtually" in 2005,avrill,9th : " I can’t write -and think.


Norouz
Sahar Akbarian ,Tehran : In Iran's ancient calender every 365 days was called a "year". After arrival of Islam to Iran a calender in which every 355 days was a complete year became popular. But after Farvardin 11th of 1304 and during Malekshah's time some scientists of the time made a calender called "Jalali Malekshahi" calender. In this calender Nowrouz was being started by the beginning of spring and it was from then that Nowrouz became a national celebrations for Iranians.


The "Silver Bear" For Panahi
Pendar.net : After "The Golden Camera" of Cannes Film Festival for "The White Baloon", the "Golden Leopard" of Locarno Film Festival for "The Mirror", and the "Golden Lion" Of Venice Film Festival for "The Circle", now the "Silver Bear" of Berlin Film Festival" goes to Ja'far Panahi's "The Offside", which narrates teh story of girls who dress like boys in order to be let to watch the football match in the stadium. After late 'Sohrab Shahid Sales", Panahi is the second Iranian director who receives this award. Since July 1975, Berlin Festival has always had a stringent attitude toward Iranian movies, while it has always been an honor for the rest of the European community, such as Italian and French festivals to have Iranian movies on their screens.


Soccer In Theaters
Tehran, Nima Afshar Naderi : As soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany gets closer, Iran's society finds newer ways to approach it. At first, some European leaders, as well as the United States, informed about the possibility of the absence of Iran's national soccer team in this championship because of its atomic energy case, which now seems to be out of question, especially after the poll that C.N.N had held online on its website, and its lack of vote.


Books and Shelves
Tehran, Nima Afshar Naderi : Book-reading among Iranians does not have a very good situation. Most books get published with only three thousand copies. After its peak days, reading newspapers, nowadays,in Iran, has had a tangible downfall after the professional deprivation and closing of some newspapers few years ago.


Shoot
This year once again Jafar Panahi was one of the first Iranian(Persian) filmmakers to send in an application for taking part at the Fajr Film Festival. He has always said that like any other filmmaker he likes to see his films being screened in his homeland. This wish has note come true for many years. Except for his first film, the white balloon, his other movies, The Mirror, The Circle and Crimson Gold have not been screened in Iran(Persia) for various reasons.

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