Wieland, Carsten

Dr. Carsten Wieland is a historian, political scientist, and journalist. He has lived and worked in Syria and speaks fluent Arabic. Wieland has 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.

He has worked as a senior executive at the Goethe Institute in Cairo and Munich and has worked in Wash...