Mina Ibrahim is completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Giessen-Germany & The international Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). He is the project coordinator of the MENA Prison Forum (menaprisonforum.org). Moreover, he is a residential fellow at Cairo Institute for Libera Arts and Sciences (CILAS) in Cairo-Egypt, and a visiting fellow at the collaborative research group (Dynamics of Security) at the University of Marburg-Germany. His main research interests focuses on cultures of incarceration and victimhood narratives of religious minorities in the MENA region.