
Lea Frehse
Grew up in Hamburg, studied international politics, history and development in Bremen, Buenos Aires and London. Followed the fall of Mubarak in Ramallah for AlJazeera and stayed in the Middle East for two and a half years as a freelance journalist. Between studies and jobs and constant travel, from Iran to Ethiopia. From 2019, she is Die Zeit’s Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut.