After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Cairo University in 1959, she wrote many articles.
Safinaz Kazem began her training as a journalist at Akhbar El Yom newspaper in November 1955, while still a student at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University.
Later she worked at the magazines Akher Saa and Al-Geel Al-Gadeed, then she moved to Al-Helal Publishing House as a writer and theatrical critic for the magazines Al-Musawar, Al-Helal, and Al-Kawakeb.
After suffering harassment by the Sadat regime, which she used to criticise, Safinaz Kazem went to Iraq and joined the staff of the Al-Mustansiriya University Faculty of Arts in Baghdad as a drama lecturer (1975–1980).
[2] She later documented her experiences under the Saddam regime and its 'atrocities' against the Iraqi people in a controversial book that she published in London under the title of The Bagdad Diary (Arabic: يوميات بغداد) in 1982.