[3] Amir changed her name due to the general outlook of Egyptian society on theatre women and how it would’ve negatively affected her family's reputation.

She played the part of Napoleon's Daughter on stage, and that is how she met her first husband Ahmed El Sheirei, who was the mayor of Samalout.

She produced the movie A Girl from Palestine (1948) about the Palestinian struggle with her husband Mahmoud Zulfikar and Soad Mohamed in the lead.

She remained active as a leading actress and producer up to her death at the age of fifty, when she passed from an un-described terminal illness.

However, this was not the reason that Amir replaced Turkish director Wadad Orfi with Stephane Rosti, rather his efforts on another film project were disastrous.

Egyptians chose to concentrate on women's power and status within the home and on breeding nationalist potency largely within the domestic sphere.

In appealing to the more family-centered traditions of Arab kinship structures, Egyptian feminism marked itself out as separate and not imported from other foreign women’s liberation movements.

[citation needed] Amir's identity that was strikingly outside the classic feminine image nationalists were attempting to build is however was underplayed by her rhetoric that focused on maternity and the idea of looking at "Egypt as a family."

She flipped the national dialogue and themes of maternity upside down, strengthening her position as a working woman in the film industry.