Rami Zeedan is an Israeli Druze political scientist and historian, currently an assistant professor of Israel Studies at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

(USA).

Education and career

Zeedan studied at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...

in Israel, completing his PhD in 2013. Before joining the

, he held positions at the

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, the

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) is a German research institute located in Berlin, Germany. The researchers focus on a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the Middle East, Africa, Eurasia, South and Southeast Asia. Central to its current ...

, Kinneret College, the Open University of Israel, and the

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. At Kansas, Zeedan is a faculty member of the Jewish Studies Program, and affiliated with the Center for Global and International Studies. He served on the board of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) from 2015 to 2021 and has been the book review editor of the journal Israel Studies Review since 2021.

Scholarship

Zeedan's work covers various aspects of the modern history and status of Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel and the

Druze in Israel Israeli Druze or Druze Israelis ( ar, الدروز الإسرائيليون; he, דְּרוּזִים יִשְׂרְאֵלִים) are an ethnoreligious minority among the Arab citizens of Israel. In 2019, there were 143,000 Druze people living ...

. 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. 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.

Selected publications

Books

* 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''.

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Tel Aviv: Modan.

Articles

* 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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