She has a PhD in Linguistics from Middlesex University, London. She has taught courses in linguistics, Arabic as a foreign language, and translation in Egypt, the UK and the UAE. Her research interests include working in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, translation, foreign language teaching and using corpora in language teaching. She has presented her work at many international conferences. She acts as a book and article reviewer for several publishers and journals including Georgetown University Press, Routledge, Journal of Applied Linguistics, and Journal of Pragmatics. She also has professional experience as a linguistic consultant and curriculum developer in the field of Arabic studies.