He grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein as-Sultan near Jericho, where he began painting as a child.
He studied fine arts and film in Moscow, Baghdad, Cairo and London.
[2] Nasr is a figurative painter whose individual style is concerned with cultural traditions.
He simplifies his subjects with simple geometrical lines, creating both harmony and balance.
That took a substantial amount of research and a little over a hundred water color paintings used as illustrations.