Hisham Soliman holds a B.A. in political science from Cairo University (2005), where he later served as a teaching assistant. His honors included a 2004 scholarship from the Fund for American Studies and Georgetown University to attend the ninth International Institute for Political and Economic Studies in Greece; and, in 2003, a 15-day internship on the functioning of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Hisham's later positions included media watch officer in a project sponsored by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.