Soroor Ghanimati, Guitty Azarpay Distinguished Visiting Instructor, NES. Soroor Ghanimati got her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at UCB (thesis topic: Kuh-e Khwaja: A Major Zoroastrian Temple Complex in Sistan). Dr. Ghanimati has many publications and extensive archaeological field work. She speaks English, Persian, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Classical Arabic.