In her films and journalistic writing, she has presented social protests of young people and their culture in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.

Documenting their social situation and political expressions in the context of the Arab revolutions, she has further focussed on rap music or other kinds of counter-culture and protest in these countries.

Her father was the Tunisian poet and essayist Abdelwahab Meddeb, and her mother is the linguist Amina Maya Khelladi of Moroccan-Algerian descent.

[7][8] In 2005, she won a Daniel Pearl Prize for multiculturalism for a story on young Muslims growing up in France.

[9][10] Based on this experience, she contributed to the 2021 French book Soudan 2019, année zéro that presents descriptions, commentaries and photographs about the weeks that lead up to the Khartoum massacre.