Khalid Dader

Khalid Dader is a PhD fellow researcher at Tampere University, part of the project 'Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence' (HOMCRI), with his project exploring Palestinian dwelling practices in spaces of elimination. 

His research interests as an emerging scholar are interdisciplinary such infrastructural practices, atmospheric violence, settler colonialism, affect and dwelling and/or homemaking practices within crisis-ridden spaces. His broader interests include poetic (in)justice and Palestinian poetic voices in translation. He is also an active member of:

• Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group (GOCEP)
• Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) at Tampere University
• Palestine Research Group at Tampere University

• In June 2023, Dader obtained a two-year master’s degree in Human Rights and Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway, focusing on masculinities and human dignity in the Gaza Strip.
• Awarded the University of South-Eastern Norway & Fritt Ord Foundation Grant in October 2022, supporting research on freedom of expression, democracy, and human rights.
• In May 2020, he completed his BA in English Language and Literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, focusing on gender representation in English poetry textbooks at Gaza's universities.

• Aldahdouh, T., Dader, K., Aldahdouh, A., Awadallah, R., Romdhani, I. (2025). ‘Waiting for a Better Time Is a Waste of Time’: Motivations of Learning Amid the Genocide in Gaza in Light of Sustainable Development Goal 4. In: Hassoun, A. (eds) War on Gaza. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88500-6_5
• Dader, K. and Joronen, M. (2025), Fitful Infrastructures: Dwelling with Infrastructural Elimination in Gaza. Antipode, 57(3): 886-906. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70013
• Dader, K., Ghantous, W., Masad, D., Joronen, M., Kallio, K. P., Riding, J., & Vainikka, J. (2024). Topologies of scholasticide in Gaza: education in spaces of elimination. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 202(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.147002
• Dader, K. (2023). Boxed Masculinities in a ‘Boxed’ Region: Exploring Masculine Performative Roles in the Gaza Strip (Master's thesis, University of South-Eastern Norway).