[3] She studied interior architecture and product design at the École Camondo school of art in Paris.
[4] In 2019 El Zein was commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority to design Us, Her, Him, a limestone sculpture located in Flag Plaza[5][6][7] which was completed in 2022.
[8] Also in 2019, El Zein staged her first solo show, Transitions, at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York.
[9][10] The title of the exhibition and the pieces she created were inspired by her experience of the "emotional and physical transformation" of pregnancy.
[11][12][13] Following the 2020 Beirut explosion, El Zein produced a series of sculptural pieces titled 6.07, the name being a reference to the time of the blast.