Amara began her professional career as a correspondent in the Middle East for various channels and radio stations.

She covered events such as the first Palestinian Intifada, the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, and the return of Yasser Arafat to Gaza.

[2] In 2014, Amara published the book Infiltrée dans l'enfer syrien : du Printemps de Damas à l'Etat islamique in which she proposed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was actually an objective ally of Bashar al-Assad.

In 2019, she criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for not having a Middle East policy and ignoring the abuses of the Arab governments.

Amara stated that the most worrying conclusion of the Arab Spring was that "there are crisis managers who act on the basis of their own interests which often change and are sometimes poorly calculated.