The family of Nehaya Mohammad was forcibly displaced in 1948, the same year when she was born in Lebanon. She received higher education, worked in schools, and participated in student freedom fighting. She also participated in the Palestinian national action following the first conference of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in 1965. She led the women's action in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the General Union of Palestinian Women, and the Annajda Palestinian Women Development Society. Then she returned to Palestine in 1994 and assumed leadership responsibilities, after which the Israeli Occupation imposed a strict travel ban on her from 2005 until her death in 2015.

The Nehaya Mohammad Collection contains several documents and photographs of the life of the late activist Nehaya Mohammad, an influential female figure and a mother of three children. She lived a life full of ordeals, challenges and dangers under the harsh conditions of refuge, expulsion and detention. She had an active role in the Palestinian Revolution, participating in the struggle against the Israeli Occupation in Beirut and Syria and training girls in military training camps to bear arms, which made her a symbol of the militant woman in Palestine. The collection includes documents and photographs that capture aspects of her personal, social and political life, and reflect the unique path of this exceptional female figure in the history of Palestine.