While she was waiting for her opportunity to achieve her higher education, El-Attar joined the activist group STAR - Student Action for Refugees, and campaigned for asylum seekers to be treated as British students within the educational system.[1] There are now more than 60 universities in the UK accepting asylum seekers as students and she is now sits on the board of trustees for the charity STAR - Student Action for Refugees with over 30,000 volunteers across the UK.[8]