Linda is Project Manager of the Pariser Platz Dialogue and Communications Manager at the JDC which includes the overall communication, events organisation, press relations, website and social media activities. Previously she worked in the field of political communication at Stiftung Mercator and as a project manager in the field of integration. She studied B.A. Arabic Studies at the Free University in Berlin and Lebanese American University in Beirut and holds a M.A. Middle Eastern Studies from Lund University in Sweden. There she specialised in the topics: Islam and democracy in Germany, Muslim minority groups in Germany and homosexuality in Islam.