She also holds a post-graduate certificate in Islamic and Modern Art from School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
[10][8] In particular, her work explores the search for identity in the aftermath of war, the destruction of cultural materials and the isolation of artists.
Born out of the scarcity of art materials in war-ravaged Iraq, she turned to items that were readily available in her immediate surroundings, such as burnt paper, torn cloth, barbed wire, splintered wood and bullets.
Her belief in art being genderless is shown in her artwork titled She/He Has No Picture which she installed in 2019 in remembrance of those who died in a bombing of a Baghdad neighborhood.
Malallah mentions that these numbers of importance to her due to her knowledge corresponding with how the Mesopotamians wrote with shapes instead of letters, and how art can be understood through a logical order.
The arabic cultural magazine Qafila has described one of the elements of Malallah's work that make her art stand out as Matter.
The raw material in question is a white cloth that is burned for a specified period of time in order to achieve the black, brown, and beige colors.
[16] A curatorial note written by Saleem Al-Bahloly describes Hanaa's artwork as influenced by the catastrophic destruction of Iraq.
What makes this stand out is that it is a daftar or leaf artbook that Malallah has created to combine the chaos of Iraq along with its history.