Hatem Hegab

Hatem Hegab is a writer, researcher, and translator based in Berlin.

Trained as a social scientist, his research primarily revolves around writing on cities, with a focus on urban history. His most recent work is about Cairo in the 1970s and the history of its formation. Prior to moving to Berlin, he worked as a writer and editor for the urban knowledge platform “progrss.”

In Berlin, he works as a research assistant at the Free University (Freie Universität Berlin) and at a research institute in the south of the city. More specifically, he investigates issues that relate to digital urban geographies, as well as to memory and youth cultures in and beyond North Africa and West Asia.

Alongside academic research, he is organized between different communities in Berlin and writes both prose and journalistic pieces. Last year, a contribution of his about the ties between Berlin and Cairo was released by a Berlin-based publishing house.