[2] She won a Scripps Howard Fellowship to attend the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

[3] Hankir worked for Bloomberg News in Dubai during the Arab Spring, covering the economy and markets.

In March 2020 she appeared in a panel discussion at Adelaide Writers' Week, along with Omani novelist Johka Alharthi and Iranian-American journalist Azadeh Moaveni.

that rewrites the hoary rules of the foreign correspondent playbook, deactivating the old clichés"[10] and by NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson as a book that will appeal to "readers of all genders and backgrounds who want to broaden their understanding of the Arab world".

[11] In an interview with VICE News, Hankir said without the reporting of the Arab world's women journalists: "the story of the region and its many nuances would be incomplete".