She has a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of North Texas. She has been teaching American women writers and American feminism since 1996, and she is a strong advocate of women’s rights. She has written numerous articles on American and Arab women writers and has coauthored some textbooks that are currently being used at the University of Jordan. She is the Director of the Women’s Studies Center at the University of Jordan and her aspiration in life is to help Arab women shed their shackles and assert themselves so that they could be whoever they are capable of becoming.