Hometown: Frankfurt, Germany

Research interests: Religious extremism, humanitarian emergencies, development, Arabic poetry

Lucie graduated from the University of Erfurt with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Social Sciences. In her thesis she analyzed ISIL’s propaganda magazines and compared competing discourses about ISIL’s identity. Over the last years Lucie has lived and worked in France, Indonesia, Lebanon, the US and Tunisia and has extensively travelled the Middle East.