Mantsur, Reda

Reda Mansour (Arabic: رضا منصور, Hebrew: רדא מנצור) is an Israeli Druze 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 Kennedy School where he was a Wexner Israel Fellow. He studied Spanish at Salamanca University, 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.