Suran (Arabic: صوران, romanized: Ṣūrān) is a city in central Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate.

[2] During French Mandatory rule (1923–1946), the Bulletin du Comité de l'Asie française noted that the inhabitants of Suran and nearby Kafr Zita "were still proud" of their descent from the Mawali tribe.

[4] The Bulletin, writing in 1933, noted that the inhabitants of Suran, like several other places whose residents were of Bedouin origin near Hama, owned their lands collectively and subject to periodic sharing (musha').

The notables of Hama offered to support the mukhtar and the villagers against the legal proceedings in exchange for some plots of land in Suran.

The mukhtar, conscious that this would allow the urban elite a foothold in the village, as had happened in other nearby places, rejected their offer.