Mina Ibrahim is an anthropologist and community archivist from Cairo, Egypt, and a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany (within the Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies (MeDiMi) research group). He is also the founding director of Shubra’s Archive, Egypt’s first neighborhood community archive, and serves as the coordinator of the interdisciplinary regional initiative the MENA Prison Forum.
His work together with his recent and forthcoming publications ask how archives are made, withheld, and fought over, and what it means to build memory and justice “from below” in contexts shaped by violence, displacement, and uneven access to official records.
In 2022, Mina completed a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at the University of Gießen. His dissertation, published as Identity, Marginalisation, Activism, and Victimhood in Egypt (Palgrave, 2022/2023), traces Coptic lives unfolding in “misfit” or negated spaces (including prisons, bars, coffeehouses and other marginalized social worlds) and examines how visibility, silence, and respectability politics shape what can be said and remembered.
