Ziyad Badee' Abdallah was born in Birzeit town, located in Ramallah district, in 1963. He is interested in preserving the heritage pieces and acquisitions of his family and works in trade.

The Ziyad Abdallah Collection contains several photographs and documents of his family and their friends. The photographs reflect an aspect of the social and daily life in the town of Birzeit, located in Ramallah district, and the diaspora, such as the United States, Kuwait and Lebanon. The collection also includes photographs of archaeological and religious areas in Palestine taken between the 1920s and the 1930s. As for the documents, they consist of a wide range of family papers, such as family letters exchanged among the family members, and official documents including birth certificates, certificates of good conduct, school certificates, passports, identity cards and various correspondences from government agencies, electricity and water bills, and receipts.