Mina Ibrahim is an anthropologist and archivist from Shubra, Cairo, Egypt. He is currently a visiting professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies (Zentrum für Konfliktforschung) at the University of Marburg, Germany. He is the founder of Shubra’s Archive, Egypt’s first community-based neighborhood archive, and the project manager of the MENA Prison Forum. Mina has extensive research and teaching experience in migration studies, cultures and histories of incarceration, archival practices, and human rights, with a focus on the MENA region and Europe. He has taught courses on ethnographic, artistic, and archival methods and has published in both English and Arabic, covering topics such as Coptic Christians, community archives, and justice in post-revolutionary contexts. He is the author of Identity, Marginalisation, Activism, and Victimhood in Egypt: Misfits in the Coptic Christian Community (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).