Dina Makram-Ebeid

Dina MAKRAM-EBEID is an anthropologist who is passionate about poetry, cooking and social and ecological justice. She holds an MSc in Anthropology and Development (2007) and a PhD in Social Anthropology (2013) from the London School of Economics. Dina was a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and is a fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her long-term fieldwork was with workers in an Egyptian steel complex. Her recent research focuses on the emotional and affective aspects of labour and resistance. The intimate discussions she had with friends, comrades and strangers about the psychological states they experienced recently in Egypt inspired her to formulate her thematic course. Dina hopes that identifying political histories of pain and trauma will enable alternative possibilities for healing. This interest in mental health journeys thus encouraged her to explore creative and collective paths to healing. By continuing to merge anthropological work with art-based initiatives, Dina aspires to create media for people to connect, explore outlawed emotions and express the rich human experience.