Stefan Seeger graduated in library science from the HTWK Leipzig in 2005 with a thesis on public libraries of Egypt. He worked from 2005 till 2009 as Librarian at the Library of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, a London branch of the Aga Khan University, and thereafter been employed from 2009 till 2014 at Georgetown University in Qatar as Librarian for Arabic Collections and Services.