Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Druze People of Israeli Nationality, Reda Mansour, Samih Al-Qasim, Majdi Halabi, Salman Masalha, Jabr Muadi, Azzam Azzam, Salah Tarif, Majalli Wahabi, Maaran Lala, Ayoob Kara, Said Nafa, Nazar Mahmud, Shachiv Shnaan, Amal Nasser El-Din, Zeidan Atashi, Hamad Amar, Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, Assad Assad, Mohamed Nafa, Angelina Fares, Salah-Hassan Hanifes, Imad Fares. Excerpt: Reda Mansour (Arabic:, Hebrew: ) is an Israeli poet, historian and Diplomat. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the University of Haifa Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers. Mansour was born (1965) in the Druze village of Isfiya in northern Israel. He has a Ph.D from the University of Haifa's Middle East History Department and a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He studied Spanish in Salamanca University (dating back to 1218, is the oldest and also one of the most prestigious universities in Spain), and a general studies semester in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 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. Reda Mansour, an Druze citizen of Israel, studied in Haifa between 1977-1983; first in the LEO BAECK, middle school and later in BASMAT High school of the Technion (Israels institute of science and technology). During that time he was involved in many youth organizations which develop cross-cultural understanding around the world, by encouraging respect for cultural difference. A among these organizations: CISV and BBYO - B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (chairman of local branch). In 1988-1989 he was also active in HABONIM DROR (i... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=3761898