JUSTUS MAKOTO KÖNNEKER

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justuskonneker@gmail.com
Instagram - @konnekerjustus

Freelance Journalist focusing
on the Middle-East.

Based in 
Beirut, Lebanon.

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German National.
Born in Tokyo, Japan. 
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon. 

Contact:
justuskonneker@gmail.com Justus is a German freelance journalist, editor and writer, specializing in the politics of the Middle East. He comes from an international background: moving from Japan, to the Netherlands and then Oman. 

His interest in the Middle East traces back to his adolescence in Muscat, Oman. He studied politics both at the University College the Hague in the Netherlands, and then in his master’s at the Free University of Berlin. 

While in Berlin, he started writing and editing for the student newspaper FURIOS. Later he worked at the media monitoring firm Cognita AG.His master’s thesis, which examined German media coverage of death in the Israel–Palestine conflict, was published in the Peacebuilding Journal, an academic journal specialising in peace and conflict studies. 

After graduating, he moved to Egypt to study Arabic, which he had begun learning during his studies. He is now based in Beirut, Lebanon. He writes primarily for German newspapers and magazines on political and social topics.