User:Alimanzour

Alireza Manzour is an English Literature lecturer. He has written three textbooks and seven articles and he is currently working on his novel called 'The Rebel'.

He was born on the 17th of May 1981 in the Shahr Ara district in Tehran. He lived most of his childhood in Iran. However, his family moved to Montreal in Canada in 1991. He began writing for the Montreal Hour in 1996. He frequently appeared on McGill University Radio Station as a young spokesman for MSQ (Muslim Société de Quebec) where he discussed life of Muslim youth in Canada.

He returned back to his home country Iran in 1999 and began teaching English to Middle School students. He majored im English in 2004 and later graduated with honors as the top student in his class in 2007 receiving his Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics. For his thesis, he worked on Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences where he investigated on 250 Iranian univeristy students in a comparative study between interpersonal and linguistics intelligences.

He wrote numerous articles and presented many papers in International conferences and he was finally awarded in 2008 a full scholarship to do his PhD on education at Univeristy Malaya in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

He has taught and lectured at numerous schools, academies, colleges and umiversities across Malaysia. He was able to initiate the Persian Literature Program at Islamic Univeristy of Malaysia in Gombak.

He is currently married. He has four children, three sons and a daughter by the names of Younes, Yousef, Yasamin and Michael.