Christopher Resch is a press officer in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) German section with a focus on the MENA region (Middle East and Northern Africa). He studied journalism and Arabic studies in Leipzig and Istanbul and then worked for the Goethe-Institut in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He is the editor of the anthology “Medienfreiheit in Ägypten” (von Halem Verlag, 2015). Before joining RSF, he worked as a freelance journalist on MENA related issues for taz, Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandfunk and other media since 2014.