Dirar abu Omar is a Palestinian farmer and political and community activist who was born in the village of Burqa in 1962. He studied in the village schools, but was unable to complete his studies because of the Jordanian Law on Objection, so he became involved in national action during the 1987 Intifada and was arrested five times in a total of one year. Between 1994 and 2000, he worked in construction and in 2001, he began working with the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees and still works there.

The collection contains several documents on the village of Burqa, located in Nablus district, which were gathered by the owner of the collection as they were neglected. As part of the documents, there are a set of land and property deeds for several villagers, bonds and tax collection receipts for property in the village, Ottoman and Mandatory birth and birth registration certificates, a notebook documenting the work of the olive press in the village, as well as documents related to the work of people from the village in the Palestinian railway line, as most of these documents concern their affiliation with the Arab Workers Association, the work of a person called Khalil in the government service in Haifa, his residence there, and his payment of taxes and bills to the municipality.