Noor Abed works at the intersection of performance and film. Her practice examines social choreographies and collective formations, combining elements of the staged and the documentary.

In 2020, she co-founded the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective. Abed was assistant curator for documenta 15 and an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie. She received the Han Nefkens Foundation / Museu Tàpies Film Production Grant in 2022, and her film A Night We Held Between won first prize at the e-flux Film Award in 2024. Abed is also the grand prize recipient of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. Her book Stars at Midday was published by Occasional Papers in October 2024.