After finishing my post-graduate studies in London in 2004, I trained as a journalist and then moved to Damascus to pick up some foreign correspondence work. I quickly became gripped with curiosity about how politics worked in Syria, both in the day to day, and on th..
Sophia Hoffmann
Sophia Hoffmann is a research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD in international politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2012. After focusing for ten years on the politics of migration in Syria and surrounding states, her current research project, "Learning Intelligence: The Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East," engages the role that intelligence agencies play for modern statehood.