She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Stuttgart in 2014. She studied “Architectural Engineering” in Cairo from 2003-2006, and obtained a Master’s degree with distinction. In 2003 she founded her own architecture practice in Cairo and has worked there until 2009. As part of her junior professorship, Dahy founded the department “Biobased Materials and Material Cycles in Architecture” in 2016, based at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design. She has registered patents both internationally and in Europe and won the Materialica Award for Design + Technology and the Material Award from the Design Center Baden Württemberg, amongst other titles.