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Raef Zureiq (born 1965) is a Palestinian lawyer, academic researcher and writer who is well-known in the field of judiciary and law. His research focuses on issues related to legal and political theory and issues of citizenship and identity. He was born in the village of Eilabun in the eastern Lower Galilee inside occupied Palestine in 1965.
His study
He is a graduate of the law schools of both the Hebrew University and Columbia University. He received his first degree and then his master's degree in law from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and after several years he joined Columbia University in New York, where he received his master's degree in law. He received his doctorate from Harvard Law School , and his doctoral dissertation dealt with the concept of legal right according to the philosopher Kant .
His career
Raef Zureiq is an associate editor of the journal Qadaya, published by the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (Madar) in Ramallah, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Palestine Studies. His publications focus on political philosophy , legal theory, citizenship, and citizenship politics.
He also authored the book “The Palestinian Question and the One/Two-State Solution,” which is considered a contribution to the ongoing debate on the one-state and two-state solutions, especially in light of the deadlock in the settlement horizon and the ongoing negotiating crisis.
He currently teaches law at Carmel Academic College in Haifa , and is the academic director of the Minerva Center for the Humanities at Tel Aviv University .
Among his publications:
In addition to his academic publications, Raef Zureiq writes opinion articles for various platforms in Arabic and Hebrew, including the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , the website Rumman , and the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir which has ceased publication.
Out of the Scene, Carmel Magazine, 1999.
Edward Said and the Role of the Intellectual, Journal of Palestine Studies , 2019.
How Silence Speaks and Speech Is Silent, 2016.
Israel: An Ideological and Historical Background, Israel Guide, 2011.
Oslo's Unintended Results, 2013.
Reading the Israeli Present, 2016.
Large stone in stagnant water, 2011.
Why the Jewish State Now?, 2011.
One-State Solution? From Struggle to the Death to the Master-Slave Dialectic, 2011.
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