Tamer is an Egyptian journalist, translator, documentary screenwriter and poet. He writes for several news websites, including Correspondants.org, Mada Masr, al-Modon and al-Itihad-Lebanon. He has also published two poetry books: Yesterday I lost a button, Story of Garments (2005) published by Dar Sharqiyat and republished by the Public Authority for Books (2012) and Falling (Biography of a smell) (2020) published by Dar el-Maraya. 

Tamer has translated several books, cultural articles and poems. His main interest is in linguistics and sociolinguistics. He currently teaches the Arabic language at the University of Sciences Po in France, where he resides.