She was born in Gaza City on February 2, 1972, and she won the Arab Journalism Award for the year 2001. She is the first female cartoonist in the Arab world to work in daily political newspapers and news sites, and she is a painter on Al Jazeera Net - the most famous Arabic news site - And it has a special page on the site. She is also the recipient of the Arab Journalism Award in the United Arab Emirates in 2001.