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 The weekly 7Sang is published every Friday under the supervision of 7Sang authors. In the weekly 7Sang, there are articles, reports, interviews, pictures, etc about Iran and the whole world in the fields of literature, arts and society. There are also some pages of calligraphy, photography, music, cinema, theatre, caricature, sports, life, society, media, opinion, IT, science, tourism, poetry, humorous poetry, poet’s introduction, literary criticism, story, literature, songs, satire, love, literary translation, internet and books.

 The Monthly 7Sang is published at the beginning of every Iranian month. Monthly 7Sang is also called Close Up. Each close up has a particular cultural, social, artistic or literary subject and all the parts of monthly 7sang are related to that very subject. Every volume of the monthly 7sang has a specific editor. In the last volumes of monthly 7Sangs there were discussed some subjects like: yellow journalism, Ahmad Shamlu (The Iranian poet), the hookah, e-zines , earthquake and songs.

 Sangak is the name of 7Sang’s weblog. In sangak, 7Sang authors write their opinion about what is going to be published in 7Sang, what has been published, etc. You can read about other Persian e-magazines in sangak also. Besides, 7sang managers write about the last changes and news about 7sang there. Sangak is being up to dated, daily.
 
Iranian Underground Music, a Music to Stay


Dr. Mehdi Semati, Associate Professor of Communication at Eastern Illinois University, teaches in fields such as "International Communication" and "Media and Popular Culture". We interviewed Dr. Semati about underground music in Iran and its differences with western underground music.
To The Memory of Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi


United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 2007 as the Year of Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi to mark the prominent Iranian poet’s 800th birth anniversary. Special ceremonies are going to be held in different countries. Among these countries Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan will have the greatest parts in holding the anniversary.
Let’s Read Rumi in English


If you want to know more about Jalal al-Din Rumi and you don’t know Farsi, don’t worry! Here is a short list of some books about him, all in English.
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Mathnavi-e Maanavi


Mathnavi or Mathnavi-e Maanavi is the best known work of Rumi consisting of 24,660 couplets in seven books. Rumi himself defined his work as a work of destruction, destruction of the worldly for the sake of embracing the Divine. He warns the reader in advance to be prepared to let go of everything.
 
 

 7Sang (Haft Sang) is the name of an Iranian e-magazine that has been published in Persian since the year 2002. 7Sang members and authors are Iranians from all around the world. The contents of 7Sang are mostly cultural, artistic and literary subjects. As the most members are living in Iran, the magazine is published under the current country rules.

 7Sang is just published on the net and there is not any printed volume. Not depending to any party, political group, etc, 7Sang is an independed magazine. There is no commercial objective in publishing 7Sang. Furthermore, the expenses for publishing 7sang are all paid by the members and money they may earn from advertising in the magazine. What publishes in 7Sang is the point of view of the writer. Publishing an opinion in 7Sang, doesn’t always mean accepting it. Literally, 7Sang means Seven Stones. The word has been taken from the name of an Iranian traditional game.

  The Islamic Republic of Iran is located in the south west of Asia: the Middle East. The country is surrounded by the neighbor countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq. To the north of Iran is the Caspian Lake and the Persian Gulf is bordering the country in the south. The official language of the country is Persian. The population is more than 70millions, more of which are the young people.

  Because of Iran’s special situation, the Iranian’s usage of the Internet has been extremely increased in the recent years. As the statistics show, Persian Weblogs have the third position between the world Weblogs. There are lots of Iranin Web Sites with various subjects, one of which is 7sang. You can see more information about Iran here.

  7sang is an Iranian traditional game. What are needed for playing this game are: seven pieces of smooth stones and a 7Sang ball. (Similar to the tennis ball) The re are two teams, each contains 5 or 6 players. The seven stones are put on each other. After that, one of the teams starts the game as the shooter. They have to shot the ball through the stones from a long distance.

  The team that shots the ball must try to drop as less stones as possible. This helps winning the game easier. The next group must try not to let the first team players set the dropped stones on each other again. They have to shot them with the ball. Whenever the ball touches a player, he has to leave the game. The second team will win if all the opposite team players have to leave the game. And the shooter team will be the winner if all the stones are set on each other.

 7Sang e-magazine is published in Persian. At the beginning of the 7Sang’s third year of publication, some parts of 7Sang are decided to be translated to some other languages so that it could be useful for foreigners also. Because of this, 7Sang is going to be published in these seven languages: Persian, English, French, Arabic, Kurdish, Japanese and Portuguese.

 Some selected parts will be translated to these languages and will be put in their own pages. Actually, because of lack of facilities, at the moment the selected parts are available only in English. And other languages’ pages just content some fixed information. These seven particular languages were chose because; Persian, Kurdish and Arabic are three of the languages that are used in the area of the country and also, have a large number of Internet users. Besides, Persian is the official language of Iran and the main language of 7Sang. Japanese and Portuguese were chose because of the large number of Brazilian Internet users. At last, English and French are the official languages of many countries.

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