In addition to teaching at AUC, where she helped set up the school’s first architecture program as well as graduate the first cohort of students during the Arab Spring uprising of 2011, she is the co-director of the UNESCO-UIA Architectural Education Commission and co-reporter of their Validation Council. The council helps shape architectural education policy world-wide, and Mostafa is focused particularly on agendas to legitimize and require the study of alternative, parallel practices of architecture in educational institutions. Her work has ranged widely from private architectural practice to consultancy for public and private sector projects and educational institutions in Egypt, the Middle East, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.