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Students and Resistance in Palestine Books, Guns and Politics
Biography
Ido Zelkovitz is Research Fellow at the Ezri Centre for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies and teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern History at the University of Haifa, Israel. Dr Zelkovitz was a post-doctoral research fellow in The Institute of Sociology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and he is Currently the Schusterman Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota for the Academic Year of 2014/15.
"It is sometimes forgotten today that Palestinian politics was born in student organizations. […] This history, and its modern incarnations, is the subject of a new book by Ido Zelkovitz, an accomplished young scholar currently at the University of Haifa. He set out to examine how the Palestinian student movement played such a key role in the quest for national independence. This is an intensely academic study, but it is accessible to both, a general and an expert audience, and as one of the first major studies tracing the Palestinian student movement through to the present, it is an important contribution to understanding the history of the Middle East in modern times. […] The book raises important questions and the reader is left with an unequivocal view that paying attention to Palestinian student politics is essential to understanding Palestinian affairs." Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online (http://membr.uwm.edu/review.php?id=188)
Ido Zelkovitz’s Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics offers a new perspective on the conflict by examining the history of Palestinian university students. One of the book’s main achievements is to represent Palestinian youth as rational, nuanced, and conscientious leaders in the Palestinian struggle for statehood. Through a detailed political history of twentieth century Palestinian student movements, the book makes the case that youth in the West Bank, Gaza, and diaspora played and continue to play a significant role in shaping Palestinian national identity and the call for the establishment of a sovereign state…. Zelkovitz’s book is of high value.
Heidi Morrison, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, October 27, 2015, 1-3Zelkovitz provides a wealth of detail regarding student movements, their constant in-fighting, and the ways they
