[1] She is widely known to have worked on film and TV that speak of child marriage, gender inequality, women's rights and social conflicts.

In 1994 she participated in Mr and Miss San Francisco India Pageant organized by Rennu Dhillon, where she captivated the audience with one and half-minute Dance performance and was awarded the Best Talent winner.

In 2007, Alam returned to Kabul and appeared with Hadji Gul in Kabuli Kid, a French-Afghan drama produced by Fidélité Films directed by Barmak Akram.

In 2014, she was in Darya's Message produced by Axobarax Films (directed by Homayoun Karimpour) and Black Kite by Tarique Qayumi.

[3] The same year Alam appeared in Shereen, a film about the struggle of a powerful woman a taboo-smashing feminist TV drama directed by Ghafar Azad produced at Kaboora/Tolo.

On the historic stage of The Monastery Ruin (Stiftsruine) in the 68th Bad Hersfelder Festspiele 2018, Hessen, Germany, She played Solveig in Peer Gynt by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, directed by Robert Schuster the German theater director and professor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.

The project “The Voices of Afghanistan” was conceptualized and produced by Che’Rae Adams at the LA Writers Center and performed live for HowlRound TV.

[2][9] Forty days after Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman falsely accused of burning a copy of the Quran, was publicly beaten and burnt to death[10] on 19 March 2015, Alam joined activists in Kabul to stage a re-enactment of the killing.

During the re-enactment, some of her fellow actors got a little too into character, she said, and though their rocks and clubs were made of sponge or foam, her face began to sting from all the blows, and she came away a bit bruised.