Photographer, installation and performance artist Raeda Saadeh was born in 1977 in Umm Al-Fahem. She received her BFA and MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and spent one year as an exchange student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She now lives and works in Jerusalem. 

Since 2005, Saadeh has been teaching at the Bezalel Academy, where she lectures in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. In 2023, she also joined the faculty at Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, where she teaches in the Department of Visual Arts. 

She was the winner of the first Young Artist of the Year Award organised by the A.M. Qattan Foundation in 2000. 

She was awarded the bronze Chimera at ICASTICA, the first International Arezzo Biennial of Art (2013). 

In 2015, Al-Monitor considered her among 50 people shaping the culture of the Middle East. 

Sa’adeh has extensively exhibited her work internationally, including at the European Parliament, the GEMAK Museum, The Hague, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Sydney Biennial and the Sharjah Biennial, as well as in exhibitions in Austria, France, Denmark and others.