Rukayyah Reichling has a bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages (Univeristé Libre de Bruxelles) and holds dual master’s degrees in social anthropology and Islamic studies (KU Leuven, Belgium). Since 2019, she has been a doctoral student at the University of Amsterdam and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European research program “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” https://www.itn-mida.org/. Within the framework of that project, she investigates how new media technologies were employed in the late Dutch colonial period to portray Mecca.