Dr Zohreh Zehbari is a Near Eastern archaeologist. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität and a research assistant at Philipps University in Marburg. She is leading a DFG-funded project entitled ‘Institutional Landscapes at Dehqaed’. One of the project's goals is to better understand the pottery typology of the region and to gain a more detailed insight into the lesser-known site of Dehqaed.