In his artworks, Raad explores how wars and decades of socio-political instability, such as those experienced in the Middle East, cause lasting physical and psychological violence that is reflected in bodies, psyches, spaces, traditions and memories.

In the 1970s, an extraordinary cinematic impulse formed at the intersection of countercultural mysticism, poststructuralist doubt, and emerging media technologies: to film what eludes the eye, to make the world visible through a sensory ritual that becomes a channel for communication in discovering the unseen.