Andrea Jud is a PhD candidate in Media and Communication Studies at Free University Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carola Richter. She attained a Magister Artium in Political Science and Islamic Studies from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg after studying in Basel, Erlangen and Damascus. In her PhD project she asks about the public construction of collective identities at the intersection of old and new media in Egypt. Between 2016 and summer 2020 she worked in Egypt for the Cairo Office of the Orient-Institut Beirut.