Al-Fassi has been employed at KSU since 1989,[1] with lecturer status as a KSU faculty member since 1992, carrying out historical research into women's history. She has not been allowed to teach at KSU since 2001.[4][18] Since 2008, she has had the status of an assistant professor of women's history at KSU and since 2013 was promoted to an associate professor.[1]