degree in Commerce (tigara, check with tarek) in 2004. Her work The Chambers and Other Stories (published in 2013) was shortlisted for the Sawiris Cultural Award, and nominated for the Young Authors Best Short Fiction Collection. She has had a short story included in the French anthology Nouvelle dEgypte (published 2015) along with such prominent writers as Rauf Said, Miral al-Tahawy, Ahmad Abu Khneigar, Mansura Ezzeldin and Yahya Mukhtar. One of her stories was translated into the Italian and published in the independent Italian publication Internazionale. She is also the author of numerous short stories published in Akhbar al-Adab. She has also been active in television and film. She wrote the scripts for ten episodes of the animated series Bani Admin Asr al-Tinin (The Humans of the Age of Dragons). She acted in Read My World, a documentary portraying the lives and work of Egyptian women writers, as well as being interviewed for, and cowriting the script of, the Danish documentary 1X1X1.