She studied in the Choueifat school for four years, during this period her passion for literature deepened as she became an avid reader.[1] She compensated for the absence of a library in her hometown with spending many hours at the Choueifat school library;[2] since she had no resources to buy books, she smuggled Mikha'il Na'ima and Khalil Gibran books – which would influence her writing career greatly – from the college library in order to read them illicitly in her bed. Her fondness of reading was ever-growing, she admitted enjoying the 'interesting reading material' found in the journal and magazine shreds that enveloped dragées and other sweets.[6]