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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]
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]
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Hittin was a Palestinian village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) west of Tiberias before it was occupied by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war when most of its original residents became refugees. As the site of the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which Saladin reconquered most of Palestine from the Crusaders, it has become an Arab nationalist symbol. The shrine of Nabi Shu'ayb, venerated by the Druze and Sunni Muslims as the tomb of Jethro, is on the village land. The village was ruled by the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until the end of World War I, when Palestine became part of the British Mandate for Palestine. On July 17 1948, the village was occupied by Israel, after its residents fled out of their homes because of Nazareth's occupation. in later years, the Moshavs Arbel and Kfar Zeitim were erected where Hittin used to be.
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