Mareike Enghusen has been reporting from Israel, the Palestinian territories, and the wider region since 2014. She works as a correspondent for the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, the radio service of the dpa news agency, and other German language outlets. Her reporting has appeared in a wide range of political and economic publications, including brand eins, Cicero, WirtschaftsWoche, Stern, and Die Zeit.
In 2014, she completed her journalism training at the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg. She then took part in the six-month Trialogue of Cultures Fellowship of Herbert Quandt Foundation in Israel and the Palestinian territories. In 2017, she was a fellow of the International Journalists‘ Middle East Programme in Cairo. In 2018, she received a grant from the European Journalism Centre to pursue research in Jordan and Lebanon.
She holds an M.A. in Middle East and Islamic Studies from the American University of Paris and an M.Litt. (with distinction) in Iranian Studies from the University of St Andrews.
She speaks German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Palestinian Arabic.