At about 20 years of age she studied Arabic in Damascus. At 29 she took her PhD and took up a university teaching position in London. At 40 she habilitated (i.e. qualified as a lecturer) and now, age 44, she runs the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (Zentrum Moderner Orient or ZMO for short) in Berlin, the only research institute in Germany devoted to an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the Middle East, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia from an historical perspective. In the meantime she has also married, had two children and moved house several times. So what's next?
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