Tawil was born in Germany. His father, Salah Tawil, is Egyptian and his mother, is Tunisian. Tawil is the first born of three, having a younger brother, Hatem, and a sister, Rascha. In 2011 he married his long-time girlfriend Jasmin Weber in a private ceremony in Berlin. In 2014 they were separated, he currently lives with his girlfriend Lena.

