Dr. Carsten Wieland is a historian, political scientist, and journalist. He last worked and lived in Syria from 2003 to 2004 and speaks Arabic.Before that, Wieland reported from th...view moreDr. Carsten Wieland is a historian, political scientist, and journalist. He last worked and lived in Syria from 2003 to 2004 and speaks Arabic.Before that, Wieland reported from the United States, the Middle East, and Latin America as a foreign correspondent for the German Press-Agency (DPA). In 1994, he also worked as a freelance journalist in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. Wieland studied at Duke University in North Carolina, Humboldt University in Berlin, and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.After returning from Syria, he worked as a senior executive at the Goethe Institute in Cairo and Munich, and is currently working in Washington DC as a political consultant with IFOK (Institute for Organizational Communication), and as a research fellow at Georgetown University.view less