Chalil Raad - was a photographer, known as "Palestine's first Arab photographer." His works include over 1230 glass plates, tens of postcards of events and daily life in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon over the course of fifty years. Raad was born in 1854 in Lebanon. Raad was taken by his mother to Jerusalem where they lived with relatives. Raad first studied photography under Garabed Krikorian, an Armenian graduate of a photography workshop established by Issay Garabedian, at the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem. Raad opened his own studio on Jaffa Road across the street from that of his former teacher in Jerusalem in 1890, engaging in direct competition with him. Raad married Annie Muller in 1919, a Swiss national who served as an assistant to Keller, a photographer who Raad studied with in Switzerland on the eve of World War I. He returned to Palestine with Muller to live in Talibiyya, then a village near Jerusalem in which Raad ran to be mayor and was elected.