Under Hafez she became an "adviser to the Foreign Ministry," and in 2003 she was named Minister of Expatriates, "a new post created to try to lure wealthy Syrian expatriates abroad — or at least their resources — back home."
巴沙尔继任后，她成为叙外交部新闻司司长和发言人，并于2003年被任命为叙利亚侨民事务部的第一位部长，“设立这一新职位的目的是为了吸引富有的海外叙利亚侨民——或者至少是他们的财富——回到叙利亚”。