HISDEMAB‘s student assistant Simon Baumann currently conducts his undergraduate studies at the Otto-Suhr Institute of Political Science in Berlin, as part of the Franco-German double degree Political and Social Sciences between the Freie Universität Berlin and Sciences Po Paris. Prior to his engagements at HISDEMAB, he has worked on the Federal Republic of Germany’s Middle East foreign policy in the 1970s within the framework of a three-month internship in the research group “Learning Intelligence”, led by Dr. Sophia Hoffmann at ZMO.