Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology and School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is an active Palestinian feminist, researcher and human rights advocate who initiated the first hot line for abused women in Palestine. Her research and publications focus on issues such as crimes against women such as femicide (Law & Society Review, 2002 & Signs. 2003), sexual abuse (Child Abuse & Neglect, 1999; Social Service Review, 2000), women and social control (Social Identities, 2004; Violence Against Women, in press), as well as women, law and society in militarised areas (Women’s Studies International Forum, 2003; Indigenous Peoples' Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance, 2004).