Her experience in urban conservation includes work for the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) in the Old Town Rehabilitation Project of Aleppo, Syria, as well as for the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme in the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Revitalization Project. As a graduate of the World Heritage Studies masters program of the Brandenburg Technical University (BTU) she has been involved since 2008 in a wide range of heritage conservation initiatives in Bahrain both of the governmental heritage authority and the private sector. She has lectured at the University of Bahrain and the German University of Technology in Oman and recently returned to BTU as a doctoral candidate and lecturer, while working for the Institute for Heritage Management (IHM).