"[10]In 2009, Princess Basma conferred Quawas the Meritorious Honor Award for Leadership and Dedication to the Empowerment of Jordanian Women.

[8] Quawas died on July 25, 2017, in Amman, Jordan, at the age of 57, due to complications of a biopsy.

[1] Quawas started her position as Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Jordan in 2011, for what was meant to be a two-year deanship.

However, halfway through her contract, she was dismissed by the University's president after defending students' rights to produce a video in her Feminist Theory class responding to campus sexual harassment.

[7] Her early dismissal resulted in considerable domestic and international outcry, including by the Middle East Studies Association of North America and many individual scholars around the world.