Born in Yaffa, Israel, she studied Sociology at Tel-Aviv University and worked at Women’s Projects Coordinator at the Arab-Jewish Community Centre in Yaffa. Subsequently she completed her MA in Gender Studies and PhD on Islam, Gender and Sexuality at Humboldt University in Berlin. For her next project she aims at decolonizing Arab feminist scholarship. Her research interests are gender, queer, postcolonial and decolonial theories and Islamic feminist studies.