In 2010 she was a public service fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and she earned the Academic Achievement and Public Service award. In 2006 she was a Fulbrighter and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale University. Before that, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Martin Segal Theatre, at the Graduate Center, CUNY, NY. Areeg Ibrahim graduated from the American University in Cairo and obtained her PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut. She has recently finished translating into Arabic a couple of books on theatre. She is also a published creative writer of Arabic fiction.