Born in Diyala, Iraq in 1957, Ali Reda Saeed graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baghdad, 1984. He also received his MFA at University of Tunis in 2004 as well as a PhD in Arts Sciences and Technology at University of Tunis in 2013. Saeed worked as a teacher of drawing at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis in addition to participating in numerous exhibitions and biennales.