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Rami Zeedan is a Druze political scientist and historian, currently an associate professor of Israel Studies at the University of Kansas (USA).[1] Dr. Zeedan is the founding editor of the Druze Studies Journal (DSJ).[2]

Education and career

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Zeedan studied at the University of Haifa in Israel, completing his PhD in 2013.[3] Before joining the University of Kansas, he held positions at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center,[4] New York University,[5] the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient,[6] Kinneret College,[7] the Open University of Israel, and the University of California, Berkeley.[8]

At Kansas, Zeedan is a faculty member of the Jewish Studies Program, and affiliated with the Center for Global and International Studies.[9] He served on the board of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) from 2015 to 2021[10] and has been the book review editor of the journal Israel Studies Review since 2021.[11][12] Zeedan was promoted to Associate Professor,[13] and is the editor in chief of the Druze Studies Journal (DSJ). He organized the Druze Studies Symposium at KU in Fall 2023. [14]

Scholarship

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Zeedan's work covers various aspects of the modern history and status of Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel[15][16][17] and the Druze in Israel.[18]

His first book, "Battalion of Arab- the History of the Minorities’ Unit in the IDF from 1948 to 1956" was published in Hebrew by Modan in 2015.[19] His second book, "The Arab-Palestinian Society in the Israeli Political System: Integration Versus Segregation in the Twenty-First Century", was published by Lexington Books in 2019.[20]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Zeedan, R. (2019). Arab-Palestinian Society in the Israeli Political System: Integration Versus Segregation in the Twenty-first Century. Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Zeedan, R. (2015). Battalion of Arabs: The History of the Minorities in the IDF. [in Hebrew] Tel Aviv: Modan.

Articles

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  • Zeedan, R., & Hogan, R. E. (2022). The Correlation between Budgets and Matriculation Exams: The Case of Jewish and Arab Schools in Israel. Education Sciences, 12(8), 545.
  • Zeedan, R. (2022). Palestinians in Israel: New Scholarship on Politics and Religion. Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, 13(1), 20-33.
  • Beeri, I., Zaidan, A., & Zeedan, R. (2021). Willingness to pay taxes through mutual trust: The effect of fairness, governability, tax-enforcement and outsourcing on local tax collection rates. Governance, 1–24.
  • Zeedan, R., & Wilcoxson, J. (2021). Obama vs. Trump-Different Approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Win-Win vs. Win-Lose Methods and Pure Mediation vs. Power Mediation. The Arab World Geographer, 24(1), 1-24.
  • Zeedan, R. and Luce, M. (2021). Druze Women and Gender in Druze Society: A Systematic literature review. Religions 12(12): 1111.
  • Zeedan, R. (2020). Reconsidering the Druze Narrative in the Wake of the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People. Israel Studies, 25(3), 153–166.
  • Zeedan, R. (2019). The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections: What Went Wrong in Pre-Election Polls? Demographics Help to Explain. J, 2, 84–101.
  • Zeedan, R. “The Druze Community in Israel.” Oxford Bibliographies in “Jewish Studies.” Ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press. 27 February 2019.
  • Zeedan, R. (2019). The Role of Military Service in the Integration/Segregation of Muslims, Christians, and Druze within Israel.” Societies 9(1): 1
  • Zeedan, R. (2018). Predicting the Vote in Kinship-Based Municipal Elections- the case of Arab localities in Israel. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 38(1), pp. 87-102.
  • Zeedan, R. (2017). Bigger, but not always Better: Size and Local Democracy in Israeli Amalgamated Local Governments. Journal of Urban Affairs, 39 (5), pp. 711-728.
  • Zeedan, R., Vigoda-Gadot, E., & Ben-Artzi Y. (2017). “Causes of (and Solutions for?) Financial Crises in Local Governments: Insights from Local Arab Authorities in Israel”, Administration & Society, 49 (7), pp. 1065-1083. (Advance online publication 21 November 2014).
  • Zeedan, R. (2013). “Israel’s 2003 Plan for Unification of Local Authorities”. Israel Affairs. 19:1: 170–190.

References

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  1. ^ "Rami Zeedan". Jewish Studies. 2018-07-12. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  2. ^ "Editorial Team | Druze Studies Journal". journals.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
  3. ^ "Rami Zeedan | University of Kansas - Academia.edu". kansas.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  4. ^ "A.SK Fellowships | WZB". www.wzb.eu. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  5. ^ "Taub Center".
  6. ^ "Personen | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)". www.zmo.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  7. ^ "Rami Zeedan - חבר/ת סגל אקדמי". המכללה האקדמית כנרת. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  8. ^ "Arabs in the Three Branches of Power of the Israeli Political System - Politics, Identity, and Leadership". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  9. ^ "Rami Zeedan". Center for Global & International Studies. 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  10. ^ AIS. "Association for Israel Studies - About". aisisraelstudies.org. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  11. ^ "Israel Studies Review". Berghahn Journals. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  12. ^ "2021-22 Committee". KU Core. 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  13. ^ "KU chancellor announces promotion and tenure". The University of Kansas. 2023-05-26. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  14. ^ "2023 Bilingual Interdisciplinary Virtual Symposium: "Druze Studies- Past, Present, and Future"". druze.ku.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-18.
  15. ^ "ISRAEL IN DEPTH – With guest Rami Zeedan, on the 20th anniversary of the "events of October 2000" when mass protests and riots by Arab citizens of Israel resulted in the police killing 13 demonstrators". www.international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  16. ^ Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. "Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Future of Political Integration". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "The Ongoing Divide: Palestinian Participation in Israeli Elections". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  18. ^ Rasgon, Adam. "Druze revolt: Why a tiny, loyal community is so infuriated by nation-state law". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  19. ^ ספרים, מודן הוצאת. "גדוד בני ערב | מודן - הוצאה לאור". modan.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  20. ^ Arab-Palestinian Society in the Israeli Political System: Integration versus Segregation in the Twenty-First Century.
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