Nimer Morqus was born in the village of Kafr Yassif, located in the Akka district in the Galilee, in 1930. He received his primary education at the government school in Kafr Yassif and the Akka Government Secondary School and worked as a teacher for eight years. He took the initiative to establish the Democratic Teachers' Bloc and was dismissed from his work for political reasons. He began his activities as a member of the Israeli Communist Party in 1953, holding several positions on behalf of the party in education, journalism and organization, and was elected head of his local town council during the period from 1979 to 1999. During this period, he served as the secretary of the "Committee of Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel". He took the initiative to establish the Follow-up Committee on Education Issues and was one of the initiators of the 1976 Land Day Strike and one of the founders of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality in 1977. He wrote on literature, politics and art and worked as an editor for cultural and political newspapers and magazines of the Communist Party before he died on 29 January 2013.

The Nimer Morqus Collection contains several photographs and documents. The photographs show the volunteer work of the Communist Party youth in the village of Kafr Yasif and the extent of the destruction caused by an armed attack carried out by the residents of a nearby village in 1981. The documents are divided into three parts. The first part is related to Morqus' political life, including minutes of meetings for political parties such as the Communist Party and the Kafr Yasif Democratic Front, the meetings of the local village council, in addition to various documents, including Morqus' political articles and lectures about the Knesset elections, and public calls aimed at political mobilization. The second part is concerned with Morqus' personal life and is represented by the personal letters between him and his family and friends. The last part of the collection features more than 220 magazines and pamphlets, including issues of different magazines, such as the al-Jadeed, al-Kateb, Sawt al-Watan, at-Taqqadom, al-Mowakeb, al-Waqt, al-Ghad and Problems of Peace and Socialism, in addition to al-Ittihad Monthly Supplement.