Mahameed is the owner of the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education, which he founded in October 2004[1] or March 2005[2] in Nazareth after he had taken his two children to see a 20-foot-high wall that Israel had built on some borders of Jerusalem.
But at the age of six he learned about the event from his father, and later, when grown, he studied in Jerusalem, London and Stockholm, where Jewish classmates told him of the persecution of their parents and grandparents.
Only when we recognize the suffering of others will they begin to understand our suffering.His museum, he said, was based on the idea that "the Palestinian people paid the price for the Jewish Holocaust in that they became the refugees and remained without a country.
At a young age, he started his own legal business, venturing capital through building a network between engineers and construction companies, to raise Arab-Israeli employment rates in the region.
In his teenage years, he attended the Arab Orthodox College in Haifa and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which he left in 1984 to study business administration in Sweden.
Returning to study law remotely from Israel (at the East London University), he was admitted to the bar and set up his office in Nazareth.
[1] A German reporter noted that Mahameed "wears elegant patent leather shoes, black pants, a white shirt and a traditional Palestinian headscarf".