Ibrahim was born in Long Beach, California to Egyptian parents. When she was a year old, the family moved back to Egypt. After her mother died, her father moved the family back to California when she was 14.[4] Ibrahim graduated Cornelia Connelly High School in 2005,[5] and then attended Orange Coast College[4] in Anaheim, California[6][7] before transferring to the American University in Cairo[8][9] in 2008, from which she graduated in 2010 with a degree in political science.[4]