Fida was born in "an Arab country". He is the eldest child and has two brothers and a sister. His father Tarif was one of those imprisoned by al-Assad's security forces in Syria. Fida said in an interview that about 16 children at ages 12–13, who wrote "Go away al-Assad" on a toilet wall in his school in Syria and then was arrested by security police. "When they returned, they were raped and had no fingernails left, they had been torn away." The family moved to Sweden in 2001. Fida went to High School at Rudbecksskolan in Stockholm together with his sister Lina. After 2010 Stockholm bombings he appeared in various local media in which he renounced terrorism and said that what happened in Stockholm was an evil act and evil acts can never be justified.