After earning her BA in Psychology from The American University in Cairo. she started working as a teacher of children with disabilities. After earning her PhD degree in Education, she started working as an Adjunct professor of Psychology at the American University in Cairo. During the following 17 years she continued to teach at the AUC different courses leading to a BA in Psychology.. During her teaching years at AUC she served in different committees

In the year 2007 she worked with the Graduate School of Education to develop the Professional Educator Diploma, and the parenting program.

In the year 2012 she became involved with Wataneya NGO for the care of orphaned children and developed the first Arabic version of the Btec Pearson Edexcel Certificate for child care. Since then more that a 100 caregivers graduated from that program and she continues to serve as the Lead Trainer and the Internal Verifier at Amaan Training Center, Wataneya NGO.

In 2015, she co-founded “EduTrain”, a private training center for support and training of teachers and parents.

Her research interests include children with disabilities and more recently have also involved children outside of parental care:

•      The inclusion of children with disabilities into mainstream schools
•      Parental attitudes towards inclusion of children with disabilities.
•      Teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion of children with disabilities
•      Identification of hidden disabilities
•      Differentiations of curriculum and instruction
•      Promoting the Development of Children
•      Societal inclusion of orphaned adolescents and Youth