Mokhtari iran

Kouider Mokhtari, Interdisciplinary Ph.D., (Ohio University, 1987) is currently a professor of literacy education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at Iowa State University (ISU), where he teaches graduate and undergraduate reading education courses for pre-service and in-service teachers. Prior to joining ISU, Kouider served as the John W. Heckert Endowed Professor and Director of the Heckert Center for Children’s Reading & Writing at Miami University of Ohio. He also served as co-director of the ESOL MIAMI project, a multi-year, federally funded project aimed at preparing pre-service teacher candidates to address the needs of English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream classrooms.

Kouider’s research focuses on the acquisition of language and literacy by first and second language learners, with particular emphasis on the role of metacognitive awareness and use of reading strategies when reading across languages. His research work has been published in books as well as educational research journal

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Rokneddin Mokhtari

Iranian police chief and musician

Rokneddin Mokhtari (1887–1970) was an Iranian musician and violinist.

Mokhtari was born in Kermanshah. As well as being a musician, he was also the head of police department in Reza Shah era.^[1] For several years, he held stately positions and after the fleeing of Colonel Ayrom to Europe, from 1935 to 1941 he was appointed as the head of the police headquarters of Reza Shah. For a short period of time he studied kamancheh with Hossein Esma`ilzadeh and befriended with Darvish Khan. He had an exceptional gift for composing pishdaramads. Of his output one can name a Mahur Pishdaramad with metric variations, also pishdaramads in Homayun (to be sung later as a tasnif: "Asheqam man" by Moluk Zarrabi), Shur, Esfahan, Bayat-e Tork, Dashti, and Segah. A tasnif in Bayat-e tork on the lyrics of M. Bahar ("Gar raqib ayad") is one of his famous pieces. His compositional style was known as "rokni." His reng in Homayun, his 3 pishdaramads in Dashti, Esfahan, and Chahargah have been published in the Method of Violin of

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Biography

BIOGRAPHY of EBRAHIM MOKHTARI

Born in Babol in 1947.

Ebrahim Mokhtari is a graduate of Filmmaking from Tehran’s College of Film & Television. He started his film career at the Iranian TV and was firstly involved in two series as assistant director. Mokhtari began making documentaries for the Iranian TV channels and established himself as one of prominent documentary filmmakers in the country.

He made his first feature film, Zinat, in 1994, which was successfully shown at the Critics Week Section of Cannes `94 too. Leipzig Film Festival held a tribute to Ebrahim Mokhtari in 1997 and Rural Art & Literature Festival of Tehran presented him a Special Prize for his film career in 1999.

He was one of the members of founding board to establish the Iranian documentary filmmakers’ association and in the first three years he was the chef of the board directors.

 

 

Filmography

1972)TOUBA, short fiction, 16mm, 30 Min., B&W

 

Awards:

– Prize of Best 16mm Film at the 5th National Sepaas Film Festival (Tehran, 1972);

– The Hon