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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Johnny Mansour is a Palestinian historian from the Arabs of 1948, born in Haifa in 1960. He is a lecturer in the Department of History Studies at Beit Berl Academic College. Specializing in the history of the modern Middle East, he has an interest in the modern and contemporary history of Palestine, the Palestinian cause, and the history of Palestinian cities, especially Haifa.
Johnny Mansour was born in Haifa on December 25, 1960. He studied primary at the Nazareth Sisters School in Haifa, and finished high school at the Arab Orthodox College in Haifa in 1978. Then he continued his studies at Haifa University in the subjects of Middle Eastern history and philosophy. He obtained a bachelor's degree and a qualified teacher's certificate. He obtained a master's degree from the same university, then a doctorate in history from Saint Petersburg University in 1988. He has been working in the field of education for nearly 38 years. He is a political and social activist through several local and international frameworks and bodies. I hold the position of director of the data bank at "Madar" - the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies in Ramallah.
positions and tasks
Editor of "The Word" magazine (issued between 1989 and 1997).
Deputy Director of Mar Elias College in the Galilee.
Lecturer in the Department of History Studies at Beit Berl Academic College.
Member of the Administrative Board of: Social Development Association (Haifa), Mada al-Carmel Center (Haifa), Media Center (Nazareth).
His writings
Wrote
A new vision of the life and work of Archbishop Gregory Hajjar. Abu Rahmon Press - Acre, 1985. The second appearance of Al-Hakim Press in Nazareth, 2013.
The Canaanites are the ancestors of the Philistines. Special Edition, Haifa, 1989.
History of the Modern and Contemporary Middle East. In association with Imad Baho, the first edition 1989, and the second 1991, increased and revised.
translations
Dan Yahav's book: Purity of Arms: Myth, Ethics, and Reality. Madar Edition - The Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies, Ramallah, 2004.
Research and Studies
Partition Resolution No. 181. Imposing a Colonial Agenda on Palestine. In Israeli Issues, Issue Twenty-Eighth / Year Seven 2007, pp. 78-85.
“Between Memory, National Identity, the Army, and Deepening the Social Divide,” in Israeli Issues, No. 31 and 32/2008, pp. 148-160.
"The Local Church and the Palestinian Question (1918-1948)" pp. 53-85, Conference on Theology and the Local Church in the Holy Land, the eighth session, July 1995, published by "Al Liqaa" Center for Religious and Heritage Studies in the Holy Land - Jerusalem.
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