Musa Sroor

Musa Sroor holds a PhD in Contemporary History from Aix-Marseille University (2005) and teaches at Birzeit University. He served as Head of the Department of History and Archaeology and Director of the Master's Program in Arab-Islamic History at Birzeit University for seven years.

An associate researcher at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM), he has also been a visiting professor and researcher at numerous French and Arab universities. His scholarly work includes dozens of studies published in Arabic, French, and English, focusing on Ottoman Palestine, particularly on issues related to endowments, property ownership, and historical sources for documenting Ottoman Palestine.

The project

Title: La propriété foncière française en Palestine ottomane au XIX^e siècle

Hosting institution: Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit (CTAD) UMR 7074, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre

Selective Bibliography

• 2023  The Money and Politics Syndrome: Foreign aid to Egypt during the second half of the twentieth century is an example. Algeria: Dar Kawkab Al-Ulum for Publishing, Printing and Distribution, 2023. (In Arabic)
• 2018  With colleagues, Textbook for Grade 12, Historical Studies. Ministry of Education, Palestine, 2018 (in Arabic)
• 2024 “The Problematic Humanitarian and Colonial Relationship between France and the Immigrants of the Zionist Movement to Ottoman Palestine: A Study in the Light of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Documents”. Arab Journal for the Humanities, University of Kuwait: Academic Publication Council.  N° .166, Vol. 42. Spring 2024. Pp. 113-142. (in Arabic)
• 2023  “The problem of the relationship between the political, the spiritual, and spatial space: the Sufi heritage in Jerusalem as an example.” Arab Journal of Culture. (An annual peer-reviewed academic journal issued by the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science, No. 68, 2023. pp. 95-139. (in Arabic)
• 2022 “The Waqf as an Anti-Colonial Tool: The Jerusalemite Village of Ain Karim as a Model”. Journal Al-Maqdisiyya, N. 13, Winter 2022, pp. 121-160. (in Arabic)