Historian Rashid Khalidi described him as "a pioneer among Palestinian and Arab journalists" due to "the sophistication and tenaciousness of his opposition to Zionism.
"[1] Nassar was born in a mountain village called Ein Einub (or Ain Ainoub), Lebanon, Ottoman Empire.
[citation needed] In 1927, he married Sadhij Bahaa, herself known as a leading defender of women's rights in Palestine and as the daughter of Mirza Badiʻu'llah Effendí.
He was involved in the formation of an association in Haifa with the aim of preventing implementation of Zionist plans and colonial activities in Palestine.
[citation needed] Historian Rashid Khalidi placed Nassar among "the intellectuals, writers, and politicians who were instrumental in the evolution of the first forms of Palestinian identity at the end of the [19th] century and early in the [20th] century," a group Khalidi characterized as having "identified with the Ottoman Empire, their religion, their Arabism, their homeland Palestine, their city or region, and their family, without feeling any contradiction, or sense of conflicting loyalties.