Academic Coordinator
Dr. Julius Dihstelhoff is responsible for the international joint project, the Merian Center for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), as an academic coordinator (postdoc position) since May 2020. He is in charge of the operational work of MECAM in the areas of administrative and organizational coordination. His responsibilities also cover the coordination between MECAM’s office in Tunis, the MECAM directors and the MECAM executive Council.

Julius Dihstelhoff’s research work addresses German foreign policy in the MENA region, political transformation processes in Tunisia, and the topics of regional (re)organization and political Islam. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Philipps-Universität Marburg with a dissertation entitled “Perceptions of German Foreign Policy in Tunisia after 2010: An Analysis of the Concept of Germany’s Foreign Policy Role from the Perspective of its Foreign Policy Makers and the Tunisian Nahda Party.”