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Homestead Lighthouse Press 2022

"It all started in the Garden of Eden, a blissful place at the edge of the universe, a wonderland oasis and paradise planted by the Creator." Read the rest of the story, A Tale of Two Souls, inside this book. It is a lyrical narrative about discovering purpose in life. Are we all born with a divine 'mission'? How do we investigate, and where? How do we find purpose and meaning every day through life's surprises and challenges, its advances and reversals? Shai Har-El's artful poetic story navigates these swirling waters and carries us safe home to greater understanding and acceptance. Har-El speaks to all people of every religious and spiritual practice. He is a trustworthy guide, and A Tale of Two Souls is a poignant tale of engaging fully with life.

Palgrave Macmillan 2024

This book explores the relations between China and the Palestinian organizations and their development during the period of 1964-1971. It serves as a case study for understanding China’s relations with the Arab world, the superpowers’ competition in the Middle East, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in general. It offers a compelling retrospective on a critical period at a time when the contours of power and peace in the Middle East have shifted dramatically. Highlighting the importance of building bridges of understanding and reconciliation across the Middle East divides, it draws on the author’s long experience of study, research, speaking, and writing about the Arab-Israeli conflict and Jewish-Muslim reconciliation.

Palgrave The fruit of relentless peace activism and many years of philanthropic work in the Middle East Peace Network, In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace is Shai Har-El's unique, non-utopian, proactive approach to Middle East peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Recognizing the magnitude, complexity, and gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the evidenced limitations of traditional diplomacy, the author offers ideas how to enhance the Middle East peace process by adding a non-governmental peacebuilding component to the peace efforts. Such citizen diplomacy efforts, he argues, should be launched at a preliminary conflict transformation phase leading up to the final conflict resolution phase. The ultimate objective of this preliminary phase is to create―through alternative avenues, such as private diplomacy initiatives, transnational mechanisms, and backchannels―a win-win environment that is conducive to settling the conflict. This book details the concepts, measures, and techniques involved in the process with the understanding that the keystone for peace is the defiant power of the human spirit in both societies that are hungry for peace.

Alfa Yayınları 2019

This is the Turkish translation of Shai Har-El's book, Struggle for Domination in the Middle East: The Ottoman-mamluk War, 1485-91, Shai Har-El'e göre 9 ile 15. yüzyıllar arasında üç slami güç vardı: Osmanlı, Memlük ve Akkoyunlu. Osmanlı mparatorluğu bünyesinde Bizans imparatorluğu ve Balkan devletleri, Ortadoğu ve ran'dan Afrika'ya slam tarihlerini kapsamaktaydı. Ayrıca Batıda sadece ulusal monarşilerin ve Protestanlığın yükselişi değil, aynı zamanda kapitalizm ve belli endüstrilerin gelişmesi de Osmanlılar olmadan izah edilemez. Aynı dönemde Abbasilerin desteğini almış Memluk devleti, kutsal slam şehirleri Mekke ve Medine'nin koruyucusu konumundaydı. Bu iki devlet özellikle pek Yolu ve kutsal şehirler için sürekli bir savaş halindeyken ve arada tampon bölgeyi oluşturan beylikler kendi çıkarlarına göre taraf değiştiriyorlardı. Dönemin iki Müslüman ve Türk süper gücü arasındaki amansız politik ve ekonomik hakimiyet mücadelesi kanlı savaşlarla sonuçlanmıştır.

Homestead Light House Press The Greek philosopher Aristotle distinguishes between two disciplines, history and poetry. He suggests that history reports what happened and therefore is concerned with particulars, whereas poetry is more philosophical and concerned with universals. I agree. My poetry is an authentic presentation of my inner world, and unlike history, the study of which I have been dedicating my life for many years, it is not subject to all the constraints and imperfections of actual life. I believe my poems, though autobiographical and personal, can appeal to anyone; the personal story in my poetry may illuminate your story because it tells the truth, my truth and yours. I described this kind of truth in one of my poems, portraying it “like a petalled rose emerging from one stem offering its sweet fragrance and infinite beauty to humanity.” With age come better knowledge and a wider experience of life. This comes up through my poems. Walking you through the seasons of my life, they start with a deep yearning and longing to the beginning, growing up in Israel; they continue through the experience of my multi-faceted love for and intimacy with my beloved wife Rosie of blessed memory, the central figure in my life over 50 years; they shift to my preoccupation with the questions of oneness and harmony in the world; they go through the period of my spiritual awakening and illumination; and they finally end where life in This World concludes, in death and grieving.

Brill Leiden ; 1995.

This two-part volume offers a comprehensive account of the conflict between the Ottoman and Mamluk Empires. Part One explores Ottoman-Mamluk relations from their inception in the middle of the fourteenth century to the laying of the foundations of the conflict in the second half of the fifteenth century. Part Two offers a detailed description of the actual war of 1485-91, and analyzes it from various angles including military, economic, and diplomatic. Based largely on Ottoman, Mamluk and Italian primary sources - documentary and narrative - the volume helps to understand the second and final war between the Ottomans and Mamluks in 1516-17, which resulted in the downfall of the Mamluk Empire and the firm establishment of Ottoman power in the Middle East. -- https://brill.com/view/title/1588?language=en

Palgrave Jerusalem's Gate of Mercy as a Context Our Father Avrah?m/Ibrah?m PART TWO RELIGIONS, ONE FAITH 1. The Gate of We are Bound An Appeal to Muslims 2. The Gate of Holy A Cultural Commonality 3. The Gate of Rituals and Closer than Apart PART TWO COMMUNITIES, ONE ANCESTOR 4. The Gate of The Religion of A Common Ground 5. The Gate of Abraham and A Scriptural Reconstruction 6.The Gate of The Sacrifice of Isaac/ Some Forgotten Lessons PART TWO ISSUES, ONE RESOLUTION 7. The Gate of Rights to the Holy A Theological Reexamination 8. The Gate of The Problem of The Truth of the Problem A Poetic Conclusion