Daughter of a Jordanian of Syrian origins, she graduated in 2003 in Economics at Bocconi University in Milan. In 2005, she moved to Naples where, after a month-long internship, she collaborated on the screenplay of the soap opera Un posto al sole.

In 2006, dissatisfied with the seriality typical of soap operas, she moved to Rome where she approached theatre and radio. In 2008 she wrote Brugole , presented at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples on 20 October 2009 in the Nuove Sensibilità festival.