Andreea Stoian Karadeli is a foreign lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Faculty of Political Sciences, Sakarya University, Turkey and a PhD candidate at Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy, Romania. She is also a graduate from Exeter University, United Kingdom, where she studied a BA in Arabic and Middle East Studies and a Master of Research in Security, Conflict and Justice. During the BA degree, she did field research on Arabic Language, Literature and Culture at Damascus University for 10 months. Andreea Stoian Karadeli’s research is multidisciplinary with the main focus on the evolution of religiously inspired terrorism after the Arab Spring, with expertise in Syria and Turkey, conflict resolution, intercultural communication, face reading techniques and profiling. Apart from her academic work at Sakarya University, she is currently delivering a ‘Face Reading techniques’ training programme to police and security officers in Sakarya, Turkey.