In 2013, her award-winning feature film The Mulberry House,[2] which deals with her relationship with her family against the backdrop of the 2011 Yemeni uprising, premiered at IDFA.
Ishaq attended University of Edinburgh in 2003, where she obtained an MA (Honours) in Humanities and Social Sciences, with a focus on religious studies, International & Human Rights Law & Modern Middle Eastern Studies in 2007.
In 2011, Ishaq co-founded the #SupportYemen[4] Media Collective, an organizing and strategizing effort to advance social justice, build a democratic civic state, promote non-violence and break the silence on human rights violations in Yemen.
Her earliest humanitarian pursuit occurred between 2009 and 2016, teaching rehabilitative yoga classes at the Nablus Women's Centre while volunteering with Project Hope (Palestine), as well as various studios across Cairo (Egypt), focusing on women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
[5][6] Sara also ran Arts & Crafts workshops for children that had survived airstrikes in Yemen after the onslaught of the 2015 war.