Shaker Ma'aly was born in 1963 and hails from the village of Ein Arik, located in Ramallah district. His family left the village during the June 1967 War and returned to it ten months later.

The Shaker Ma'aly Collection is one of the family collections that document excerpts from the life of the Ma'aly family in the 1960s in the village of Ein Arik, located in Ramallah district.