Alfaheem researches historical French Algeria and the contemporary West Bank of Palestine to examine the practices, institutions, and normative technologies that enable supremacist rule in settler colonial contexts.

Working as a visual artist, Alfaheem is involved with the Arts and Conflict hub at the university. 

Alfaheem holds a degree in Politics and International Relations from Queen Mary University of London, a postgraduate degree in International Relations from King’s College London, and is a PhD candidate in this department of War Studies. 

Research Interests 

• International Relations theory
• Foucauldian governmentality
• Necropolitics and ethnonationalism
• Settler colonial studies

Alfaheem is developing the theory of Settler Governmentality with particular focus on how settler-colonial relations are conceived, the impact of systematic impunity with regards to bodily violence, and settlers’ functionality as norm pioneers who shift and accelerate state politics. In pursuit of a theory of colonial power, Alfaheem assesses the limitations of the state-centric conception of settler colonialism in the field of Settler Colonial Studies.

Teaching

• 4SSW1006 - International Relations Theory