She has over thirty years of experience, and has spent two decades working with filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako.

Ben Rachid started her editing career working with 35mm film on celluloid.

[2] Ben Rachid has edited such acclaimed films as Timbuktu,[3] Waiting for Happiness, Bamako[4] Life On Earth, and Tug of War.

She has also edited numerous documentaries such as all of Anne Aghion's films including 2005 Emmy winner In Rwanda we say...

The family that does not speak dies and 2009 Cannes Official Selection doc My Neighbor My Killer, Tarr Béla, I Used to Be a Filmmaker and Michka Saäl's Les prisonniers de Beckett.