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Dr. Julius Dihstelhoff
DIRECTOR
Since April 2025, Dr. Julius Dihstelhoff has been serving as the Director ‘Germany’ of the international collaborative project Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM). Prior to this, from May 2020 to March 2025, he worked as the Academic Coordinator (Postdoc) for the center.
As a political scientist, his research focuses on German foreign policy in the MENA region, political transformation processes in Tunisia, as well as questions of regional (re)ordering and political Islam.
