Suaad Al-Amri is a Palestinian architect and writer from Jaffa. She was born in 1951 to a Palestinian father (Mohammad Adeeb Al-Amri), originally from the Zahran tribe. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1928 and then obtained a diploma from the Law Institute in Jerusalem in the mid-1940s, where he held several ministerial positions in Jordan. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Michigan, after which she earned a doctorate. She married Dr. Salim Tamari, a senior researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies, and is currently a professor of architecture at Birzeit University in Ramallah.

Believing in the importance of Palestinian cultural architectural heritage, she established a center for the restoration and exploitation of historic buildings, which has documented, recorded, and protected thousands of sites and buildings in Palestine. This center, Riwaq, was established in 1991 in Ramallah. She is the author of several publications, including: Traditional Tiles in Palestine, Architecture of the Chair Villages, and Earthquake in Beit Shean, among others.