El-Attar is an electronic design engineer. She completed her bachelor and master degrees in engineering at Cardiff University.[1] Previously, she worked as a system design engineer in Cardiff, an assistant lecturer of engineering, an interpreter, a museum guide, and as a theatre and radio actor, in such productions as Stori, A telling , at the Welsh Millennium Centre, Nothing is Out of Place on Radio Cardiff, and Praxis Makes Perfect (Interactive Theatre) at the National Theatre of Wales.