Piotr Schulkes is in his third and final year of a bachelor in Middle Eastern studies at the University of Groningen. His primary interests are the energy and water politics of the region: How the countries are dealing with a changing global energy landscape which has serious consequences for their income and thereby stability; and how an already unstable region is put under even more pressure by suffering from a severe lack of rainfall, rising temperatures and climate change. He hopes to combine his field of study with a love for expressing his ideas and eventually become a full-time writer.