Raghida al-Zo'by is an Arabic language teacher in Nazareth and has served as a secretary for the Arab Student Movement in Israeli universities during the late 1970s and the 1980s. She is also a member of Mada al-Carmel Center's General Assembly as well as of the Arab Culture Association's Administrative Body.

The Raghida al-Zo'by Collection contains documents, pamphlets, and press clippings, some in Hebrew, dating back to the late 1970s, of the Arab student movements in Haifa, the Committee of Arab Students in Jerusalem, the Committee of Arab Students at Tel Aviv University, and the mouthpiece of the Israeli Socialist Organization in Israeli universities- the University of Haifa, in addition to a list that contains the names of students who voted in a university in the 1948 Palestinian Occupation Territory.