Professor Nadera SHALHOUB-KEVORKIAN

In 2025, Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian continued to face physical assaults, harassment, and smear due to her expression, academic work and criticism of Israeli authorities. These included threats and attacks by Israeli settlers on several occasions, including a physical assault by a settler in East Jerusalem. No trial date was set in relation to charges brought against her after her 2024 arrest in connection with her criticism of Israeli oppression of Palestinians, including the genocide conducted against Gazans (see Case List 2025). 

Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a prominent Palestinian professor and leading legal and feminist scholar whose work focuses on several areas, including genocide studies, law and society, trauma, criminology, surveillance, and gendered violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law - Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law at Queen Mary University of London. She is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Criminology, from which she received the Radzinowicz Prize in 2017 for her article ‘The Occupation of the Senses: The Prosthetic and Aesthetic of State Terror’. She has authored numerous academic publications, including ‘Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear’ (2015), and ‘Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding’ (2019), both published by Cambridge University Press (CUP).  She has also co-edited two books, including ‘When Politics are Sacralised: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism’, (CUP 2021).