Nihad abu Ghosh is a leftist Palestinian politician and journalist, who was born in Jerusalem in 1959. He worked as a university lecturer, journalist, and writer specializing in Israeli affairs and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He studied economics and administrative sciences and was detained in Jordanian prisons between 1979 and 1989, after which he worked for several Jordanian, Palestinian and Lebanese newspapers. He held the position of Secretary-General of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, is one of the political leaders of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and is a member of the Palestinian National Council. He assumed the position of central information officer for DFLP in the West Bank.

The Nehad abu Ghosh Collection documents his experience in prison after the Jordanian Authorities sentenced him to 15 years, on the background of his engagement with resistance in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Therefore, the collection included some of his prison letters, which he was able to take with him, documenting life inside Jordanian prisons with all its privacy and details that reflect the nature of that stage on the political level in particular, in addition to the cultural dimension of the Palestinian prisoners who tried to create a line of communication between home and exile.