Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorki̇an, Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University and a leading scholar of state crimes and surveillance, will present the Spring 2026 Edward Said Endowed Lecture hosted by the Center for the Study of Muslim and Arab Worlds  at California State University, San Bernardino.

Her talk titled, “The Necropolitics of Ihala in Occupied Jerusalem,” draws on the voices of Jerusalemite Palestinians to advance Ihala, a term connoting attack, swarming, and invasion, as a critical analytic for rethinking necropolitics in settler-colonial contexts. It will begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, at the Santos Manuel Student Union North Conference Center Room 2207. The event is free and open to the public; parking at CSUSB is $10.

Guests can register online to reserve their seat.

The Edward Said Endowed Lecture Series features internationally recognized intellectuals who contribute to a deeper understanding of Palestinian history,culture and identity over the past century.

Web flyer for the Spring 2026 Edward Said Endowed Lecture

Housed in CSUSB’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for the Study of Muslim and Arab Worlds, the endowment was  established in 2022 through a $200,000 gift from Mustafa Milbis, a local philanthropist and retired business owner. Milbis and his wife, Beatriz Milbis, made the donation to provide support for the lecture series as a way to showcase scholarship on the contemporary Palestinian experience, thereby, allowing CSUSB to continue its commitment to promoting cultural understanding among tomorrow’s leaders.

The series is named in honor of Edward Said, renowned professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and the author of more than 20 books. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and died in New York in 2003. Throughout his life, Said remained a leading literary critic, public intellectual and passionate advocate for the Palestinian cause.

Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the fourth scholar to deliver the Edward Said Endowed Lecture at CSUSB. Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a Palestinian Jerusalemite feminist whose scholarship on the settler colonial state’s brutality, unchilding, securitized and sacralized politics, state crime, law and society, and global feminist politics, challenges epistemic violence. Shalhoub-Kevorkian has also held the title of Professor Extraordinarius at University of South Africa, and chair of Global Law at the Queen Mary University of London School of Law.

She is the author of numerous books, among them “Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study,” “Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear,” and “Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding.”

Shalhoub-Kervorkian received a bachelor’s degree at the University of Haifa in 1980 and went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1980,  a bachelor’s degree in social work in 1981, a master’s degree in criminology in 1989, and a Ph.D. in law in 1994 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

For more information on Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s talk, the endowed lecture series, or to request accommodations for the event, contact Hareem Khan at hareem.khan@csusb.edu.