Despite the fact that Moussa achieved high grades in her secondary education, and could have pursued a career in engineering, she insisted on joining the Faculty of Sciences at Cairo University.

[5] The visit raised vehement debate in United States academic and scientific circles since she was the first non-American person to be granted that privilege.

[citation needed] She turned down several offers that required her to live in the United States and to be granted the American citizenship saying "Egypt, my dear homeland, is waiting for me".

[8][9][10] She was a Fulbright Fellow visiting from Fuad I University in Cairo[11] performing cancer control research and a recipient of a grant "to engage in nuclear physics in the United States.

[14] She was riding passenger in a 1952 Buick sedan with driver Arling Orwyn Kressler, a U.S. Air Force civilian employee assigned to Washington D.C., when their car lost control and fell 54 feet (16 m) into a 30-foot (9.1 m) ravine.

used the circumstances of her death to allege rumors that the Israeli Mossad murdered Moussa,[4] aided by Jewish-Egyptian actress Raqiya Ibrahim [ar].

[22] Inspired by the contribution of earlier Muslim scientists, including her teacher, Dr. Moustafa Mashrafa, Sameera began writing an article on the work done by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in founding algebra.

She also discussed the history of the atom and its structure, and dangers of nuclear fission technology, as well as the properties of radiation and their biological effects.