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]
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]
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]