Hakim Khatib is a political scientist specialised in ideology and the interplay of power thereof in social life, and religion and its relationship to contemporary politics in the regions of West Asia and North Africa, especially Egypt and Syria. Hakim works as a lecturer for political science and journalism at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and Philipps University in Marburg, Germany. He has published over 100 articles in different languages, academic and otherwise, in a widely different spectrum of on-line and printed newspapers, journals and think tanks.