Amal Jamal

Biography

Amal Jamal is dean of the faculty of social sciences and head of the Walter Lebach Institute for the Study of Jewish-Arab Coexistence at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on applied political theory and comparative politics. He has written extensively on the dynamics and interplay of minority nationalism, state-minority relations, civil society, Indigenous rights, social movements, and political communication and mobilization. Amal is a respected voice in understanding the role of civil society in democratizing ethnic states and promoting equal citizenship for all citizens—an issue examined in his book “Reconstructing the Civic: Palestinian Civil Activism in Israel” (State University of New York Press, 2020), for which he won the best book prize of the Israeli Political Science Association in 2021.