context: Reuben Snair (originally Shahrbani) was born in Haifa to parents who immigrated from Baghdad in 1951. The language spoken at home was Iraqi Arabic and the parents' culture was pure Arabic, but Hebrew was his preferred language in his childhood and the Zionist Hebrew culture was the educational framework The educational process that arose in its context, like all children in the Israeli Jewish community. As for Arabic, according to the standards of the Zionist culture imposed on the new generation, only the language of the enemy was considered Arab civilization vulgar and degenerate. In an article in the German Fikrun wa Fann magazine, Snir touched on his life as a Jewish child of Arab origin in Israeli society in the 1950s, saying: “In my attempt as a child to adapt to prevailing Western Zionist-Ashkenazi standards, and as was the case with the rest of the children with a similar social background, I was, As a child, I am ashamed of my parenthood. For them, I was nothing but a client of the government Zionist suppression apparatus that the ruling Israeli establishment sent, after receiving the best exercises and training, to the heart of the enemy's rulings, i.e. my family, and I completed the mission to the fullest extent that a child could perform in front of his loving parents, taking full advantage of what is involved He must love the parents who are weak towards their child: they prohibited them from speaking Arabic in public places, or listening to Arabic music inside their home. Arabism was not only my father's only problem, as he was a communist activist at a time when belonging to communism in Israel was no different from belonging to a terrorist organization. Snir received his elementary education at the "Nirim" school in the Mahani David neighborhood in the outskirts of Haifa, and was originally a camp set up for Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Then he moved to the Hareli Ha'abri School in Haifa, where he studied for the first time in the context of an educational project that was primarily aimed at preparing students to serve in the Israeli army in positions requiring proficiency in Arabic. [1] After completing the military service, he began studying Arabic literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained a master's degree (1982) after submitting a thesis in which he achieved an ascetic manuscript from the second century AH of Al-Muafi bin Imran (not published yet). [2] In 1987, he obtained a doctorate from the same university and his thesis dealt with Sufi features in contemporary Arabic poetry (we have not yet published). [3] During his university studies, he worked as a news editor for Voice of Israel in Arabic (1977-1988). From 2000-2004 he held the position of Head of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Haifa, and since 1996 he holds the position of Assistant Editor in the Carmel Magazine - Research in Language and Literature issued in Haifa. He participated in the international exhibition held in honor of the poet Adonis at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, which produced a book that compiles studies on the work of Adonis. [4] Snair also spent several periods at institutions of higher studies abroad such as the Institute for Higher Studies in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) (2004-2005), and the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (2000 and 2008); He also lectured at the University of Heidelberg (2002) and at the Free University of Berlin (2005). In the wake of a course he supervised in Berlin, his students published the first anecdotal collection of Iraqi Jewish writers. [5]
question: Where was Reuben Snir born?
answers.text: Haifa