The Imad Nassar Collection
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1879 - 1971
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Born in Jordan in 1950, Imad Nassar is a civil engineer who graduated from Budapest University of Technical Sciences in Hungary in 1976. Since then, he has been working on managing infrastructure projects in Jordan, the Emirates, Palestine and Africa, as well as supervising the restoration programme of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
show more show lessThe Imad Nassar Collection contains several photographs related to his childhood with his parents and aunts, Milada and Victoria. In his collection, Nassar was interested in the idea of documenting this collection of personalities who, in his opinion, made a tangible change in their lives and the lives of those who lived with them. The collection particularly documents the period of the work of the two sisters Milada (1926-2013) and Victoria (1928-2014) Hanna Khamis as teachers in several schools, including the Maziniya School in Hebron, the Schmidt Secondary School in Jerusalem, and the Zarqa School in Jordan, in addition to photographs of the funeral of their father, Hanna Khamis, who died in 1952 and was buried in Beit Jala. The collection also contains documents, including a copy of the Old Testament of the Bible, which dates back to 1879 in Beirut, issues of the Catholic monthly "Raqeeb Sihyawn" Magazine published in Jerusalem, and a Palestinian passport issued in 1929.
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