Zahra (Sahra) Javidanmehr is a PhD holder in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) from Shahid Beheshti University. She has been a lecturer at SBU, Sharif University, and Shahid Beheshti Medical University for about 10 years. Sahra has published several articles and book chapters and has presented a number of papers in different conferences. To complete a part of her PhD dissertation, she has been on sabbatical for around a year at Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States. 

She has been an IELTS instructor for a couple of years as well and besides teaching IELTS and preparing the candidates for the exam, she has written and compiled some all-inclusive materials (to be published) on IELTS writing Task 1 and Speaking skill. 

Apart from her academic endeavors, Sahra is a calligrapher too. She is passionate about  both Persian and English calligraphy.