She received her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from New York University in 2001. She has published two books: “A Young Palestinian’s Diary, 1941-1945: The Life of Sami ‘Amr,” and “Jordanian Jerusalem: Holy Places and National Spaces”. She also taught a course titled, “Cities in the Arab World: A Film Survey” for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of Towson University.