Later, she emigrated to France to study comparative literature, social anthropology, and ethnology of the Arab world at the University of Paris VII.
In 1975, in her own words, she decided to travel "to the end of the earth," choosing Mexico as the most distant possible place from her native Damascus.
Her opinions were rather unorthodox: on several occasions she remarked that the generation of youth that participated in the movement of 1968 had been the poorest intellectually of 20th-century Mexico, that democracy had no place in the family or the school, and that plebiscites were a fascist invention.
Her readers, on the other hand, note the lightheartedness of her writings and lectures, the profundity of her investigations and her own originality.
[weasel words] She died October 31, 2000, in Mexico City, survived by one son, the Mexican author Maruan Soto Antaki [es].