Noor Abed works at the intersection of performance and film. Her works create situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Abed attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan, Lebanon. In 2020, she co-founded with Lara Khaldi the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator at documenta fifteen, Germany; artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie, Netherlands; and a Han Nefkens Foundation/Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grantee.