I have graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative History of Ideas and a minor in History in 2016. I researched about the philosophy of the Self through the lens of Islamic philosophy/theology, more specifically the Persian aspect of it for my bachelor’s thesis and self-published it as a book. I decided to study the Global History program in Berlin because the program offers a comparative look at different aspects of history and also for the fact that I wanted to live in a diverse community like that of Berlin. I am interested in the formation of the European Union and to see if such a case is applicable to the region of the Middle East.