Hanna Nakkara is a Palestinian lawyer from the village of Rameh, who lived and grew up in Haifa. He and his family were forcibly displaced to Lebanon in 1948, after which his journey back to Haifa began, exposing him to imprisonment and the risk of deportation. His life was not limited to practising law, but he also got involved in partisan and political work. He was one of the founders of the Palestinian Communist Party, a founder of the Committee for the Defense of Arab Lands, and a member of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL).

The Hanna Nakkara Collection contains three sections, the first includes family photographs, some of which document the family's meeting with their relatives in Cyprus for the first time after the 1948 Nakba. The second section includes family correspondence and articles handwritten by Hanna Nakkara, and papers related to the associations and non-governmental institutions with which he was involved in working, in addition to some legal and judicial papers of his arguments, as he was known for being an avid advocate of the Palestinians who were subjected to expulsion and displacement and concerned with the issues related to the land confiscation by the Israeli Occupation Authorities in the 1948 Occupied Palestinian Territory, earning him the epithet of "The Lawyer of the Land and the People". The third section of the collection contains legal booklets.