She obtained an MFA in film from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in 1996 and worked as a film editor in the United States and in Europe before shifting her focus onto writing and directing her own projects. Amongst her films, Promenade received a Berlin Today Award grant and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009. Un Mardi, won first prizes in Dubai film festival (2010) and at the Festival International de Namur 2011 (FIFF). Questions around the representations of war in media and in film prompted her to pursue a practice led doctorate at Goldsmiths University, London. She received a PH.D in July 2014 for a thesis entitled ‘Picturing Live War: a research practice in an installation and a text’.