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Mina Ibrahim at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History to discuss collaborative and community archival practices

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Mina Ibrahim at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History to discuss collaborative and community archival practices
From 21 to 25 October 2024, the C²DH will welcome Mina Ibrahim, an anthropologist and archivist from Cairo

Mina Ibrahim is an anthropologist and archivist from Cairo, Egypt. He is the founder of Shubra’s Archive, Egypt’s first community-based neighborhood archive, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg in Germany. Mina completed his doctoral thesis in Cultural Studies at the University of Gießen in Germany, which was later published as his first monograph, "Identity, Marginalization, Activism, and Victimhood in Egypt: Misfits in the Coptic Christian Community" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). He has also authored numerous academic and non-academic articles and book chapters on topics related to Shubra, Coptic Christians in Egypt, migration, and human rights in the MENA region and Europe. Mina previously served as the project coordinator and project manager for the MENA Prison Forum and teaches courses on anthropological, artistic, ethnographic, and archival methods and practices. More information and contact email here https://www.medimi.de/en/article/93.dr-mina-ibrahim.html

Don't miss his lecture 'Vernacular Archival Practices: In Praise of Silence, Inaccessibility, and Incompleteness' on 22 October.