Mohammad Salem Thweib was born in 1919. He was elected a member in the Jordanian House of Representatives in 1956. He became a member of the Palestinian National Council and was the sheikh of the Ta'amra clan, south of Bethlehem.

This collection documents the professional life of Mohammad Salem Thweib as a member of the Jordanian House of Representatives in the 1950s, and contains photographs of visits and conferences in which he participated.