Siddiq Nassar (Ṣiddīq Naṣṣār) (صديقتوفيقمحمدنصار) was an assistant professor of Finance in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the Islamic University of Gaza. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Business Administration from the Islamic University of Gaza in 1999 and 2005 respectively. As for his doctorate, he earned it from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he was a student from August 2012 until February 2018. His fields of specialization were Accounting and Finance. Within these fields, his research interests included behavior management, decision-making, information exchange and public relations. He was fluent in Arabic, English and Turkish, and published his scholarship in both Arabic and English.
Siddiq Nassar was an active researcher with two field sites, Palestine and Turkey, and an impressive publication record. In fact, he had three journal publications in a single year while a doctoral candidate (2/2016, 3/2016, 4/2016) and at least one journal publication per year from 2018 and the award of his PhD.
His scholarship demonstrates a preoccupation with the various factors – specifically, structures and arrangements – that affect the performance of businesses and institutions. He had two single-authored publications (2018, 2019) having to do with the effect of intellectual capital on business performance in Turkey, and four co-authored publications (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) about the effects of different capacities and strategies on corporate performance in Gaza. He was, indeed, a scholar of great promise.
Siddiq Nassar was killed on 4 January 2024 in Dayr al-Balah Governorate, south of Gaza City, as a result of Israeli shelling. He was 47 years old.
