Born in Nazareth in 1943, Walid Fahoum is a Palestinian lawyer, researcher, and writer. Fahoum studied at College des Freres and then at the Municipal High School in Nazareth, and obtained a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1974, he obtained his bachelor's degree in law. He became socially and culturally active, got involved in national institutions in particular and co-founded the Voluntary Work Associations Union in Nazareth. He is the author of many publications and cultural writings, including the books "The Barking of Racism", "The Shackles Must Be Broken", "The Birds of Nevi Tirza", "The Book of Tales of the Immaculate Conception" and others.

The Walid Fahoum Collection varies between judicial and personal items, as it includes photographs of the Fahoum family from the 1940s until the 1990s, personal letters, postcards, greeting cards, cultural and literary magazines, special articles which Fahoum co-wrote, diaries, notes he wrote during his university education, several photographs of Fahoum's uncle's family, which date back to the 1930s and which they left with the family during the 1948 Nakba, and they have not been able to retrieve them until today.
On the professional level, the collection contains several judicial files related to Palestinian detainees in the West Bank and the 1948 Occupied Palestinian Territory, as he was known for his permanent defence of political detainees in Israeli prisons. It also contains letters from prisoners to their families and their artwork.