Farouk was Director of the Investment Promotion Agency from 1981 to 1992 before taking charge of the Minister of International Cooperation and Foreign Investments from 1992 to 1994 and later became the head of mission in the office of the President of the Republic from 1994 to 1995.[4] In February 2010, she was appointed Tunisian Ambassador to Germany serving for only one year there. Farouk was Vice-president of the World Organization of Mediators and of the Association of Ombudsmen and Mediators of the Francophonie (AOMF). She assumed the office of the President of the Association of African Ombudsmen at the general assembly of the organization in Muldersdrift ( South Africa ) in 2005.[5][6]