Her debut novel Al-Tabuur (The Queue) was first published by Dar al-Tanweer in 2013,[4] and Melville House published an English translation by Elisabeth Jaquette in 2016.[5] In 2017, this satirical novel won the English PEN Translation Award.[6] For its dystopian representation of injustice, torture and corruption, it has been compared by the New York Times to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Trial by Franz Kafka. The novel has also been published in Turkish, Portuguese, Italian and German translations.[7]