She is also Executive Director of Hima Mesopotamia: Water and Peace in the Middle East. She founded the NGO to nurture the eco-cultural heritage of the Tigris-Euphrates watershed through outreach, coordination and capacity building, synthesis of scientific information, traditional and local knowledge, providing a forum for cultural and environmental information exchange, and to influence just and equitable water policy in the watershed. She works internationally to help develop a framework of hima, or stewardship of the land, throughout the Arabic world.