Karima Abboud "Palestine's First Photographer" was born on the 18th of November in 1896 in Nazareth, her family has Lebanese roots in the southern town of Khiam and migrated to Nazareth in the mid-19th century.

Abboud began practicing photography in 1913 after her father gave her a camera. She worked as a photographer for one of the Armenian photographers in Jerusalem. Abboud then opened a women's photography studio in Bethlehem, and then a shop to delevlop, colour and edit the pictures.

Her early photos feature natural sceneries, cities, historical monuments, family members and friends. She then began to photograph women in Bethlehem, encouraging conservative families to photograph their women without embarrassment.

Abboud died in 1955 at the age of 59, leaving hundreds of photographs that embodied an important stage in modern Palestinian history.

Her 123rd birthday was commemorated by Google in 2016.