Khader Ibrahim Salameh was born in the occupied village of Zakariya and brought up in Al-‘Arub and Dheisheh refugee camps. In 2021, he finished his post-doctoral studies at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Salameh has worked at Al-Aqsa Mosque Library and the Islamic Museum at Al-Haram al-Sharif for 35 years, serving as the museum’s director for 23 years. He also worked as a librarian at Hebrew University and Al-Khalidi Library. Salameh is the author of a number of biographies, articles, and books on manuscripts and libraries in Arabic, English, and French.