[2] Without any formal training, and speaking only Egyptian Arabic,[3] she started her own theatrical troupe in 1926[4] and travelled throughout North Africa.

Theater director Aziz Eid fell in love with her and enabled her to learn to read and write.

She also sailed to South America and acted in Santos, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires.

Her last screen appearance was in 1955, in a secondary role in Ahmed Diaa Eddine's Da`uni A`ish / Let Me Live.

[1] In the 1960s, Rushdi and Hussien Pasha Ghannam hosted a salon for filmmakers and students at the Cairo Higher Institute for Drama Studies.