She began her filmmaking career in 2007 working with the BBC and other media outlets. She later made two award-winning documentary films about the 2011 Yemeni revolution: Karama Has No Walls (Academy Award & BAFTA nominated) and The Mulberry House. She is also co-founder of the Sana'a-based media collective #SupportYemen (2011) and Comra Film Camp (2015). She is now developing her first fiction feature.