With funding from SOAS for her doctoral research, Aziz travelled to Nepal in late 1969 and settled in Solukhumbu to conduct fieldwork among Tibetan refugees from Dingri, southwest Tibet.

She was entrusted by Abbot Trulskik Rinpoche with photographing sacred Tibetan manuscripts connected with the 12th century teacher PhaDampa Sangyas and then worked with Bhutanese scholars to have them printed for wide distribution.

[1] In 1988, Aziz expanded her professional pursuits into journalism, joining WBAI Radio in New York City in 1989 and began covering the Arab Middle East on overseas assignments.

[1] In 1980 on a research exploration up the Arun River Valley in East Nepal, Aziz encountered a small settlement of women ascetics who disclosed to her the hitherto suppressed history of their departed guru from Bhojpur, the political agitator Yogmaya Neupane.

Interviewing elderly survivors of her movement and collecting oral and written documents, she was able to assemble a comprehensive picture of Neupane's long-suppressed political campaign in that region.

In 2001, Aziz published the book Heir to a Silent Song:[3] Two Rebel Women of Nepal, that incorporated the biography of Yogmaya Neupane and her contemporary, the social activist Durga Devi Ghimire, also from Bhojpur.