Jalal-o-din Homaei is a distinguished contemporary researcher and writer who is well-known for numerous works in various fields. A great number of critics and revewers have addressed his life and conditions in their books and articles. The present paper attempts to shed light on the great scholars works from a new perspective.

Henry Widdowson is an authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching. Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution to communicative language teaching. However, he has also published on other related subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes and stylistics. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning calls him "probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (p. 674). Widdowson is Emeritus PROFESSOR of Education, University of London, and has also been PROFESSOR of Applied Linguistics at the University of Essex and PROFESSOR of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna, where he holds an Honorary PROFESSORship. Since the 1990s, Widdowson lives and works in Vienna. He (HW) and his wife Barbara Seidlhofer (BS) were invited to give plenary talks at Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan (Tabriz) in 2018. The following is an interview by Dr Farzad Salahshoor (FS) with these scholars at the conference venue. . .

Avicenna (980-1037 A. D. ) in his famous “ Isharat va Tanbihat” text indicated that human pleasure should be studied in four stages: sense, imagination, estimation and wisdom [1].....

PROFESSOR Bijan Davvaz, a leading personality of mathematical sciences in Islamic Republic of Iran, recently celebrated his sixtieth birthday. He is a PROFESSOR at the Yazd University since 1991. He is an Editor in Chief of the Journal Algebraic Structures and Their Applications since (2021)...

Public financial management is one of the most important tasks of governments that affects the efficiency of various sectors and economic and social situation of a country. In view of that, the establishment of treasury single account has been known as one of the most essential reforms in the financial management system and public expenditures in different countries. In this respect, this article evaluates treasury single account in Iran by using World Bank’ s "Treasury Diagnostic Toolkit (questionnaire)". The toolkit has been completed by "Treasury Department of Iran", "Central Bank of the Islamic republic of Iran" and "Secretariat Executive Council of IT". The results of the evaluations demonstrate that the performance of the treasury single account in Iran is 67. 4 percent; In other words, it is evaluated as relatively good. Furthermore, a detailed examination of this issue specifies the challenges in this area which can be resolved by correcting and regulating efficient laws and creating the required infrastructures. It is worth mentioning that the complete establishment of the treasury single account can fulfill the fifty-third principal constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also, it can lead to greater coordination and interaction between the "Plan and Budget Organization of the Islamic Republic (PBO) and "Treasury Department".

PROFESSOR Werner Felix Dutz (Figure 1), an Austrian pathologist, joined the faculty of the School of Medicine of Shiraz University in southern Iran in 1959. He and his wife, Dr. Elfriede Kohout, also a pathologist, had come to Iran for only a two-year appointment at an academic institution in a Third World Country, to meet the existing requirements for eligibility of immigrant status in the U.S. They stayed for fifteen years until 1974, when they left for America and subsequently joined the University of Vienna, PROFESSOR Dutz’s alma mater. Werner died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Vienna in 1984. After World War II, many scientists, medical or nonmedical, from Europe or America, ventured across the globe to transfer their skill and knowledge abroad, in return for the satisfaction of having served where they were needed. Upon returning home, they would usually close that chapter of their life by publishing fascinating accounts of their sojourn overseas. Werner Dutz's undertaking was an altogether different proposition. He belonged to a very rare and special class of scientist – travelers.

Mohammad Hossein Hakimi Meibody was born in 1963 in Meibod, Yazd province. He had gotten his diploma in Meibod and then for higher education, he had gone to Isfahan university and had exceeded direction of plant science for 4 years and graduated in 1989 with excellent grade. Then, he went to Tehran university and passed course of Plant Systematic in Biology department of faculty of science since 1996 with excellent grades; in this year (1996), he was accepted as a faculty member of Natural Resources department of Yazd University....

Dr. Yahyā Māhyār Navvābī, who recently passed away at the age of 88, was an eminent authority on ancient Iranian languages, an untiring scholar and an influential educator. He will be long remembered by his many students and academic friends inside and outside Iran. He was a PROFESSOR both at Tabriz and Tehran universities.Māhyār Navvābī was born in Shiraz in 1912, where he spent his childhood and had his early education. He moved to Tehran for his secondary schooling and then went on to Tehran University, where eventually he graduated in 1946 with a Ph.D. degree in literature, having written his dissertation on the Achaemenid inscriptions of Bistftn ("the Bistūn Rock"). After teaching for two years at Tabriz University, he had the chance to continue his linguistic studies abroad, first at SOAS in London with PROFESSOR Henning and later at Gottingen, in Sweden.Māhyār Navvābī 's academic career continued as a full PROFESSOR at Tabriz University; several years later he moved to the capital, where he was offered the chair of ancient Iranian languages at Tehran University. After his retirement from Tehran University in 1973, he moved to the University of Shiraz, where he actively participated in editing and publishing the Asia Institute's research journal as well as a series of Pahlavi texts in facsimile.He was a prolific author who wrote numerous scholarly papers, in Persian and English, on linguistic and lexicographic questions. These have been collected in two volumes and published in Shiraz, in 1974 and 2000 respectively. Some of the topics in which PROFESSOR Navvābi was especially interested were the following:1) Obscure and problematic words, found in Ferdowsī's  Šāhnāme and other early Persian texts.2) The early language of Azerbaijan.3) The local dialect spoken in Shiraz up to the 9th/15th century.4) The House of Vesāl of Shiraz, whose members were prominent poets, painters and calligraphers in the Qajar period.Another major undertaking by PROFESSOR Māhyār Navvābī, which was an ongoing life-long project, is A Bibliography of Iran, which he compiled in ten volumes, nine of which have been published so far. These include about one hundred thousand entries, including both books and articles written by Iranologists all over the world on Persian/Iranian history, culture, religions and art.PROFESSOR Māhyār Navvābī died in Sweden of cardiac arrest on 2 October 2000 while visiting his daughter.

Mansūr  Šakk ī, PROFESSOR Emeritus of Modern and Middle Persian at the University of Prague, passed away on 22 March 2000. He was 82. His loss will be long felt in the field of Middle Persian studies. Dr.  Šakk ī's early life was spent in the study of physics, first at Birmingham and later, after his departure from Iran for political reasons, at Prague. Shortly afterwards he was afflicted with a serious pulmonary disease which prevented him from pursuing an active career in physics; he turned instead to teaching Persian at the School of Orientalism in Prague University.In the 1960's he turned his attention to Middle Persian and a serious study of religion and law in the Sassanian period. So much so that he became an authority in these two fields, and contributed many academic papers on these subjects to scholarly journals such as Archív   Orientální, to Encyclopaedia Iranica, and to a number of festschrifts and denkschifts. His published works include three books, namely:- A Modern Persian Phrase-Book, Prague, 1963, 991 p.-- A Study of Nominal Compounds in Neo-Persian, Prague, 1964, 115 p.-- Principles of Persian Bound Phraseology, Prague, 1967, 118 p.

Stephen Krashen (born 1941) is PROFESSOR emeritus at the University of Southern California. Stephen Krashen received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1972. Krashen’ s numerous papers and books have greatly contributed to the fields of secondlanguage acquisition, bilingual education, and reading. He is known for introducing various hypotheses related to second-language acquisition, including the acquisition-learning hypothesis, the input hypothesis, the monitor hypothesis, the affective filter, and the natural order hypothesis. Most recently, Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during secondlanguage acquisition, which he says, "is the most powerful tool we have in language education” . What comes below is an interview with him by the editor of IJLTR. KS stands for Karim Sadeghi and SK for Stephen Krashen. . . .