Andrea Shalal reports on German foreign policy, security and European defence for Reuters. Over the span of 30 years with Reuters, she has covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, U.S. elections, energy and the environment, global arms sales, as well as politics, the arts and civil rights. She helped found a diversity initiative at Reuters in the United States in the late 1990s, has taught college and graduate courses on diversity and media ethics, and lectures occasionally about Arab-American literature.