[3] Her career and life is often discussed alongside figures such as Huda Sharawi and Malak Hifni Nasif, as all three of these women gave lectures and put on other events to further education, promote health, and reduce sexual exploitation for women, among other things.

In her childhood, her brother helped her learn to read and write at home, and she was self-taught at maths.

Defying the established social norms of the time, she stole her mother's stamp and sold her gold bracelet to apply for school, continuing her studies secretly against her family's wishes.

[3][5] She believed strongly that the lack of hierarchy in the peasant and lower classes was a good model of how women can be an asset to productivity via equal opportunities with men.

She believed that giving women an equal status in the workforce and in education would make them less vulnerable and less prone to sexual violence.

However, after attending a conference in Rome in 1923, she, along with Huda Shaarawi and Ceza Nabarawi, came back to Egypt unveiled as a proclamation to Egyptian society.