She is focused on foreign and European affairs and the Middle East. She has formerly worked as foreign correspondent for ARD-German Public Radio in Cairo, Egypt. Before her training as a TV and radio journalist she studied Comparative Literature, Islamic and Jewish Thoughts at Freie Universität Berlin. She also studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria, with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Dr. Florian Kohstall - Freie Universität Berlin; Higher Education Panel