Dr. Muhammad Makram Balawi was born in the Jordanian city of Irbid on August 2, 1969, to a Palestinian family whose origins go back to the village of Balaa in the Tulkarm Governorate, and he is married and has seven children. He studied the primary stage in Islamic schools in Irbid and in UNRWA schools, and studied the secondary stage in Prince Hassan bin Talal School, from which he obtained his high school in 1986, and received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Nagpur University in India in 1993, and his doctorate in English literature "postcolonial studies" from the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2014. He worked in the field of relief, worked as a teacher in public schools in Jordan until 2001, then worked as a lecturer at the College of Health Sciences in Saudi Arabia, then worked as a staff member at the University of Dammam, and became responsible for the university's newspaper and information center.

Dr. Muhammad Makram joined the Islamic Movement in Jordan, and part of his activity focused on charitable work, and engaged in serving the Palestinian cause, contributing to the establishment of the Al-Quds Foundation-Malaysia, and became the director of the Association of Academics for Jerusalem in 2020, and acting president of the Union of Palestinian Academics since 2021, and founded the Asia-Middle East Forum, which aims to provide knowledge and understanding between the Asian continent and the Middle East.

He has published forty-one stories, and has two collections of children's literature that he is preparing for publication. He has also published a number of research papers and articles specialized in international relations as well as Palestinian and Zionist affairs, which have been translated into more than thirteen languages: Asia on the Right: The Beginning of a New Era (2017), A Reading of India's Decision to Revoke Kashmir's Special Status, The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The Indian elections and their implications for the Palestinian cause (2019), The future of US-China relations in light of the coronavirus (2020), Sino-Israeli relations under the American microscope (2021), After the Myanmar coup 2021: the limits of military democracy, and China and the Middle East: Real Strategy or Malicious Flirting? (2021).

 Books he has co-authored include: The Islamization of Knowledge and English Literature Studies in the Age of Islamophobia and Westernophobia (2016), Jerusalem: History, Religion, and Politics (2019), Deconstructing Pro-Israeli Discourse in India (2019), Indian Elections 2019: Results and Implications (2019), and Neo-Eastern Narratives: A Study of the Representation of Muslim Communities in Literary Works