Kristin Helberg

For seven years, political scientist and journalist KRISTIN HELBERG reported from Damascus on the Middle East for German, Austrian and Swiss radio programs as well as various print and online media. Today she works as an author, Middle East expert and presenter in Berlin. Herder Verlag has published her book “Verzerrte Sichtweisen – Syrer bei uns. Von Ängsten, Missverständnissen und einem veränderten Land” (2016) and ”Der Syrien-Krieg. Solution to a world conflict” (2018). As a Mercator Foundation scholarship holder, she researched the Syrian diaspora in Germany.