She is a print and television journalist, fluent in Arabic. Her first documentary, Syria: Behind Rebel Lines, won a Canadian Screen Award. She is shortlisted for at least a dozen other international accolades, including thrice a finalist for the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents and twice for the One World Media International Journalist of the Year. Rania regularly writes for the New Yorker, National Geographic, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Australian, CSM, and a host of other publications.