While she is considered a pioneering short story writer in Lebanon and Iraq, the critic 'Umar Muhammad Talib argues that her stories are better categorized as didactic tales rather than fiction, employing "an oratorical language and a resounding tone to preach to her sisters and encourage them to hold to virtue, morals, and religious teachings. The writer tells stories of the wretched fates that are the end of deviant women."[1]