I’m a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the Cluster of Excellence ‘Climate, Climatic Change and Society’ (CLICCS). Previously, I have been Senior Researcher at the University of Hamburg. I studied History, Culture, and Languages of the Near and Middle East and Political Science (BA), Arabic at the Higher Language Institute in Damascus, Syria, and Middle East Politics (M.Sc.) at SOAS, London. I earned my PhD in International Relations from the University of Hamburg. I’m a co-speaker of the thematic network “IR norms research” of the German Political Science Association.