Reda Mansour
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Reda Mansour was born (1965) in Isfiya in northern Israel. He is a PH.D candidate in Haifa University's Middle East History Department and a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
His field of research is the Changes in the Perception of Identity and Social Environment as Evident in the Intellectual Discourse in Syria During the Third Decade of the "Corrective Movement" 1988-2003.
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[edit] Literary career
Mr. Mansour is the first non-Jewish poet in Israel to write exclusively in Hebrew. He is at work on a book of short stories. His short story "Jumblat in the Negev" has won the "Recommended Story" category of the "Ha'aretz" Annual Short Story Award in 1997.
[edit] Poetry
Mr. Mansour is an accomplished author. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the Haifa University Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers. In addition, a collection of his poems is currently translated to Spanish and Portuguese.
[edit] Tender Leafs of Conscience
This collection of Hebrew poems was written in varies places around the world starting from 1998 during the author studies in the KSG and ending in Portugal four years later. The poems are dedicated to nature and its effect on history and people. They blend together Arab and Jewish traditions and the multiethnic history of the Iberian Peninsula with some images of the modern American literature. They explore the relationships between people and places. The title of the book is the title of one of the poems that was written during a Cambridge spring mixing with the news of the massacres in the Balkans. Published by Sa'ar Publishing 2004, Cover design by Israeli renowned photographer Alex Libak.
[edit] Other books by the author
[edit] Diplomacy
During his career in the Foreign Service, Mr. Mansour served as Ambassador of Israel to Ecuador. Prior to that, he served as DCM in the Israeli Embassy in Portugal and as Consul in the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Mr. Mansour speaks five languages. Currently he serves as the Consul General in the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta.
[edit] Public activities
Mr. Mansour has devoted his public activities in Israel for the promotion of dialogue between Arabs and Jews. In this realm, he has served on the board of several NGO's and taken part in many projects aimed at promoting of co-existence and cultural dialogue.
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