[1] She attended a school in Jerusalem before training as a teacher at the college in Bayt Jala which was organised by the Russians.

[1] She and Zleikha Shahabi, a Muslim, founded the first Arab Women Union Club in 1921.

[citation needed] She had said that they had been ruled for centuries by the Ottoman's but she found British colonialism to be unacceptable.

She would visit her brother's children Duma and Hala and they would look forward to the news, she could bring from her less restricted travels.

[4] She became a teacher which was one of the most coveted jobs for a woman even though class sizes could be as large as eighty.