10.17192/meta.2019.13.8087 Ibrahim, Mina Adel Mina Adel Ibrahim The Invisible Life-worlds of a Coptic Christian Middle East - Topics + Arguments : Vol 13 (2019) Philipps-Universität Marburg 2019 Coffeehouse Prison Coptic Orthodox Church Coptic Christians (In-)Visibility Pope Shenouda III Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) 2020-01-18 2019-12-22 en JournalArticle https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/235/8087 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2019-235-80874 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2019/235/8087/8087.png 2196-629X application/pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This essay presents the life-story of a Coptic Christian between the PlayStation lounge, the coffeehouse and the prison. By taking this constellation as a point of departure, I broadly link such a portrait to overlooked contacts between Coptic Christian youth and the clerical hierarchy of the institution of the Coptic Orthodox Church. While attention is usually given to how Copts experience, negotiate and struggle against the various roles of the Church and its tradition of khidma (service), I investigate Coptic youngsters’ lifeworlds when they wish or have to stay invisible from the Coptic Church’s presumptions of representing its congregants. 2196-629X Middle East - Topics + Arguments Vol 13 (2019)