HISDEMAB‘s student assistant Charlotte Gerdes is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in History and Cultures of the Middle East at Freie Universität Berlin, with a focus on Arabic Studies. She also took classes on international relations and intelligence studies and participated in the 2022 King’s College London Summer School on terrorism and national security. Charlotte spent a semester at the German Jordanian University and before joining the ZMO, she interned at the German Federal Foreign Office.