Hatem received his BA in Political Science and Middle East Studies at the American University in Cairo with minors in Anthropology and History (just because). Through a Foucauldian theoretical framework, his thesis looked into the intersectionalities in the Arab Identity and the Druze of the Golan Heights. After living in Turkey and working as a journalist in a publication focusing on urban studies in Cairo, he decided to move to Berlin to escape the tribulations of Cairo.