Fitxa persona

Jorge Ramos Tolosa holds a PhD in Contemporary History and is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Valencia.

His doctoral thesis (2016) received International Mention, was graded with ‘Cum Laude’ honour and received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award. It was supervised by Professor of Contemporary History Ismael Saz Campos and Professor of Contemporary History Mª Cruz Romeo Mateo. This doctoral thesis is a historical research project on Palestine-Israel entitled: ¿'Las Naciones Unidas no son nada'? Pablo de Azcárate y el fracaso de la ONU en Palestina (1947-1952), freely available at: https://mobiroderic.uv.es/bitstream/handle/10550/51957/ Tesis%20doctoral%20de%20Jorge%20Ramos%20Tolosa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

He has published 4 books in Spanish and Valencian-Catalan about Palestine-Israel:

· Jorge Ramos Tolosa: Palestina desde las Epistemologías del Sur, Buenos Aires, CLACSO-CES Universidade de Coimbra, 2022, free download in PDF format: clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana/libro_detalle.php?orden=&id_libro=2498&pageNum_rs_libros=0&totalRows_rs_libros=1647

· Jorge Ramos Tolosa: Una historia contemporánea de Palestina-Israel, Madrid, Catarata, 2020, catarata.org/libro/una-historia-contemporanea-de-palestina-israel_105654/ (3th edition in October 2024)

· Jorge Ramos Tolosa: Palestina. Una història essencial, València, Sembra Llibres, 2020, sembrallibres.com/llibres/palestina-una-historia-essencial/ (7th edition in October 2025)

· Jorge Ramos Tolosa: Los años clave de Palestina-Israel. Pablo de Azcárate y la ONU (1947-1952), Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2019, marcialpons.es/libros/los-anos-clave-de-palestina-israel/9788416662951/

He also coordinated, together with Professor Diego Checa, the book Comprender Palestina-Israel: estudios pluridisciplinares y decoloniales (Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2019) and is co-author of the following books: València viva i combativa (Sembra Lllibres, 2021), Existir es Resistir. Pasado y presente de Palestina-Israel (Comares, 2017) y Memòria democràtica i patrimoni. 1936-1939. Conéixer, difondre i posar en valor (Universitat de València, 2017).

His main lines of research are: Palestine-Israel; postcolonial-decolonial studies, Arab-Islamic studies, Epistemologies of the South, racism/anti-racism, migration and human rights; the history and memory of the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship; the far right; and social movements.