She is known for her work on the newspaper Al-Karmil with her husband, Najib Nassar, and for being the first Palestinian woman taken as a political prisoner under the British Mandate.
[1] She was the editor of the paper from 1941 until its closure in 1944 when the British Mandate authorities invoked emergency protocols to close the newspaper's offices permanently.
'[7] Ellen Fleischmann describes Nassar's journalistic work between 1926 and 1933 as a kind of 'one-woman press', covering a wide range of topics on local, regional and global levels.
[1][3] The Union played an important role in the 1936 General Strike, during which Nassar participated in demonstrations as part of the group.
[1] In October 1938, Nassar was invited to attend the Eastern Women's Conference for the Defence of Palestine in Cairo, hosted by the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU), by its founder Huda Sharawi.
[1] The EFU was founded in 1923 and worked to create gender equality in Egypt as well as to connect feminist organisations and activists across the Arab world.
[1] The Palestinian women's delegation contributed to the conference by giving speeches about unity among Arabs and the importance of collective action against colonisation.
[1] Nassar gave a speech calling on attendees to take active steps to save Palestine before time ran out.
[1] Her husband, Najib, formed part of a local and international campaign for Nassar's release, writing a letter saying that if his newspaper did not secure his place in the history books, his relationship to his wife would.
[1] After moving to Lebanon, Nassar continued to work as a journalist, publishing articles in the newspaper al-Yawm.