Born in Fayoum and now based in Paris, he writes in a voice that moves between breath and declaration, between page and stage. His album Le Cri Du Caire, awarded at the 2023 Victoires du Jazz, is  a careful layering of poetry, brass, and space.

Alongside him stands Robinson Khoury, recognised among the rising talents of the same award, and Jules Boittin, whose tone is steady and unadorned. Two trombones, sometimes circling, sometimes colliding, open a wide terrain around Miniawy’s voice. The trio grew slowly from a first meeting in 2019, after a concert in Paris, where shared references felt less like influence and more like recognition.

The music draws from jazz structure and Egyptian soundscapes — as coexistence. Brass lines stretch and fracture; the voice carries traces of Sufi cadence, street noise, prayer, and protest. There are passages adapted from the years of the Arab Spring, and others from Le Cri Du Caire, reworked with restraint. Baroque and operatic contours appear briefly, then recede into something more intimate.

On stage, the performance unfolds with deliberate pacing. Light and shadow hold equal weight. Text is present — translated, accessible — yet it never dominates. What remains is a shared concentration: a room listening closely, as if turning the pages of a hidden archive together.