Rami Zeedan

Rami Zeedan is an Israeli-Druze political scientist and historian. His recent research ranges between urban affairs/local governments, ethnic politics, public opinion, and Israeli studies.^[1] Since 2014, Zeedan has held a two-year fellowship for outstanding post-doctoral research from the Council for Higher Education in Israel, during which he was a Taub-Schusterman Fellow with New York University (NY, USA) in 2014-2015,^[2] and a postdoctoral research fellow with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin, Germany) in 2015-2016 ^[3] with a project funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.^[4] Zeedan currently teaches at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication and the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the Open University of Israel.^[5] Zeedan published a book on the Israeli policies in regard to recruiting Israeli minorities to the IDF: Zeedan, R. (2015). Battalion of Arab- The History of the Minorities' Unit in the IDF from 1948 to 1956. Ben Shemen, Israel: Modan Publishing, in cooperation with Maarachot. The publication of his book developed a debate about the Druze youth service in the IDF,^[6] following his new findings, based on Israeli archival materials, that it was a result of a well-manipulated plan by the Israeli government back in the 1950s and not as a request of the Israeli-Druze themselves.^[7] Previously Zeedan was a A.SK Social Science Fellow^[8] at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

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