Aamer Ibraheem is a sociocultural anthropologist, whose research weaves anthropology with history in multiple languages including Arabic, Hebrew, and French, to study the formation of political attachments and the production of historical claims among mountain communities in the modern Middle East, with a focus on the realms of war, self, and theology. His work centers on questions around the colonial registers of tradition and their temporal modes of subjection. His current book project, Present Interruptus, traces how the Druze tradition of reincarnation was inaugurated as an anthropological object of knowledge external to the community since the 19th century. Located in the Golan Heights, this ethnography proposes a radical rethinking of past-life memories by taking seriously the politically paradoxical subject positions they produce.

Ibraheem received his PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. Prior to completing his doctorate, he was the Paloheimo Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. His fieldwork was supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Palestinian American Research Center. In 2025, he joined the University of California, Davis, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology.