Muhammad al-Kashef

Muhammad al-Kashef is a Berlin-based human rights lawyer, consultant researcher and advocate with a focus on migration control and border security. He is a co-founder of the Refugees’ Solidarity Movement in Alexandria, Egypt. Later, he founded the In-Exile initiative in Berlin and became a member of the migrants’ network We’ll Come United. As a member of the online mapping platform Watch the Med, al-Kashef monitors trajectories of irregular migration from North African countries through the Mediterranean Sea. Al-Kashef has worked alongside refugees and migrants in host communities, detention places and reception centres, as a researcher and legal consultant with a focus on community organising and capacity building. He is also a co-founder and active member of the Abolish FronteX network.