About: Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)
Name: Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA)
Email: nickdahan@gmail.com
Website: http://www.sellingavisionofhope.org/
Description: My name is Nissim Dahan, and I was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1952. I guess I don’t really qualify as a “youth” in the technical sense. But I do think of myself as young in spirit. Luckily, the soul doesn’t seem to grow old.
My family in Israel goes back over 200 years, way before the state came into being. In fact, the parents of my grandmother were one of the first 60 families to found the city of Tel Aviv, and there is an iconic photograph on the sand dunes which bears witness to that event. When I was seven years old, my dad, ever in search of new opportunities, moved my mother, brother, and me to America, the land of opportunity. I enjoyed my studies, became a lawyer, but have not practiced law. Instead, for the past 30 years, I worked with my dad as a custom home builder, and I personally designed, sold, and built some 1200 custom homes in the Baltimore metropolitan area, where I now live, with my lovely wife, Mira, who was born in Cairo, Egypt. Recently, my dad decided to pull out of the building business, so I found myself in a semi-retirement situation. The good news, however, is that I finally have the time to devote myself to something a little bit out there, which I will now describe.
Over the past two years, my wife and I founded a project called Selling a Vision of Hope. We like to think of it as a strategy for success in the Middle East, and as a way of promoting peace there. The basic approach includes: Selling a Vision of Hope, Sustaining a Vision of Hope, and when necessary, Fighting for a Vision of Hope.
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ISRAEL@60: A Light Unto The Nations? (May 5, 2008)
What If Being Good Were Made Profitable? (April 24, 2008)
A Recipe for Peace Pie (April 14, 2008)
Edwin Just Called Me A “Deist” (April 6, 2008)
Should the U.S. Leave Iraq? (March 31, 2008)
Paradise Lost (March 23, 2008)
Is Gaza More Than Gaza? (March 3, 2008)
Where is the Honor in Honor Killing? (February 23, 2008)
