Anwar Nusseibeh is a lawyer and Jerusalemite politician who was born in Jerusalem in 1913. He received his primary education at Rawdat al-Maarif al-Watania School, then joined the Arab College in Jerusalem. He studied law at Cambridge University, from which he graduated in 1934. In addition to his work in the legal profession, Nusseibeh held various political and diplomatic positions, as he received multiple ministerial portfolios with the Jordanian government, which also appointed him as Governor of Jerusalem, Guardian of the Holy Places there, and its ambassador to the United Kingdom. By the end of the 1970s, Nusseibeh held the position of chairman of the Jerusalem District Electricity Company Council, before he died in Jerusalem on 22 November 1986.

The Anwar Nusseibeh Collection contains hundreds of photographs and documents, which combines, on one hand, family archives, such as his family photographs, letters related to his children's education, papers and powers of attorney for the Nusseibeh family and their property in Jerusalem as well as letters he received from his friends in different parts of the world, and, on the other, letters that reflect his work in the legal profession and the cases he pleaded in, and the condolence telegrams that were sent to his family after he died in 1986.
The collection also includes letters from various research and educational institutions, Ottoman documents, papers related to the Department of Revival of Islamic Heritage, and printed publications issued by local and international institutions. He also kept newspaper clippings containing the interviews with him and the newspaper articles on him, in addition to the speeches he delivered in numerous forums.