Amal was born and raised in Cairo in Egypt and attended Cairo University. Before graduating, she joined the Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement and got involved in the promotion of democratic changes in the country. After the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état and August 2013 Rabaa massacre, she left politics and limited herself as distant observer and an online commentator. She met her husband Mohamed Lotfy, the co-founder of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, in Cairo and married him in 2014. After marriage, she focused on her small family and gave birth to Zidane in August 2015. While she was mainly taking care of her newly born boy, her husband Mohamed Lotfy, an Egyptian-Swiss National, was expanding ECRF to become one of the most important Human Rights Organisations in the country. He was firstly banned from traveling to Germany on June 2015 and had his Egyptian passport was confiscated at Cairo airport. He was traveling to Germany to participate in a debate at the German Parliament Bundestag on the visit of General Sisi to Berlin.