Salameh Khalil was born in the village of Taybeh in the Triangle in 1909 and studied at the Arab College in Jerusalem. He obtained the Teachers' Training Centre's Certificate in 1929 and worked as a teacher in Nablus and Qalqilya. He was appointed principal of al-Majdal Secondary School in 1942 and remained in this position until the Nakba. Then, he moved to the Gaza Strip and worked as an assistant director of education there until 1952, before moving to Tulkarm and working there as an English language teacher. Later, he joined the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and served as Director of the Teachers' Training Centre in Ramallah until his retirement in 1973. He passed away on 28 February 1982.

Saji Khalil, the owner of the collection, was interested in gathering photographs, documents, and video recordings that show an example of the lives of his parents, Salameh and Samiha Khalil. The collection focuses more on presenting part of the history of Salameh Khalil through photographs and documents about his studies in the Arab College and his work as a teacher and then as a principal during the Mandatory Government of Palestine in the city of Majdal until 1948. The documents varied, clarifying the role that Salameh Khalil played in the educational process and presenting a model of family life through photographs and letters. The video recordings show activities related to the work of Samiha al-Qabaj, "Samiha Khalil" in the Inash Al Usra Association, and her political, feminist and social activism as one of the pioneers of national and social work in Palestine. Other items are specific to Saji Khalil himself.