Rami Zeedan

Dr. Rami Zeedan is a political scientist and historian specializing in modern Israel, with a focus on the Arab Palestinian minority within the nation-state and the Druze in the Middle East. Dr. Zeedan is the founding editor-in-chief of the Druze Studies Journal. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Zeedan has published over 20 academic articles, in addition to two books, on elections, local governments, public opinion, and the history of Arab Palestinians in Israeli politics, government, and the military. His previous books include The Arab Palestinian Society in the Israeli Political System: Integration Versus Segregation in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books, 2019) and Battalion of Arabs: The History of the Minorities’ Unit in the IDF from 1948 to 1956 (Modan, 2015, Hebrew).

He has held visiting positions at various institutions in Germany, Israel, and the United States, including the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, New York University, and the University of California, Berkeley.