She graduated from Aleppo University School of Medicine in 1990. A doctor by day and writer by night, Rana earned her Master’s in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University in January of 2017. She self-published a bilingual book of poetry titled Dreams of the Beginning in 2011. Her poems appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of The Deadly Writers Patrol journal, and will be featured in the May 2017 issue of DoveTales journal.