after she won the unesco competition, riham met larbi sebbone, a well-known moroccan caricaturist. larbi encouraged her to draw more. her first drawings were in "al alam", a moroccan newspaper in the arabic language, and in "al mintaka", a local kenitra newspaper. then she drew for the women's magazine "citadines". in 2006 she worked in the national press. she worked with newspapers, magazines and women's magazines. by 2010 she was considered part of the "syriacartoon family". in october 2011, she started work with the arabic version of "likolli nissae". finally she went to work for "rissalat al ouma", a newspaper in casablanca.