Her work is part of contemporary Syrian literature in the context of imprisonment, war and exile.
Ujayli studied modern Arabic literature at Aleppo University, graduating with a doctorate.
[1][2] Her first novels, written in Arabic, were The Cat's Eye (2006) that won the Jordan State Award for Literature, Persian Carpet (2013) and A Sky Close to Us (2015).
[4] Her short story collection A Bed for the King’s Daughter, published in Arabic in 2017, was awarded the Al Multaqa Prize.
[5] Ujayli was also a participant at the 2014 IPAF nadwa, an annual writing workshop for promising emerging writers.