I was born in Cairo (Egypt), in August 1972, after spend pretty much all my life in Egypt. In 2000 I moved to Buffalo, NY, USA to get my Ph.D. from state University of New York at Buffalo. I joined the Laboratory of Alfred Ponticelli to study the role of the general transcription factor IIF in transcription initiation by eukaryotic RNA polymerase II. In August 2004 I moved back to Egypt to join the Biochemistry Department at Ain Shams University. In 2005 I moved to Boston, MA, USA to work as a post-Doctoral fellow in Claire Moore's lab at Tufts University, to study an aspect of eukaryotic gene expression called polyadenylation. This essential step in the synthesis of mRNA produces a modification on the end of the RNA that helps the mRNA function more efficiently in protein synthesis, and prevents it from being destroyed before it has performed this job. In 2009 I moved back to Egypt to teach Biochemistry and Molecular Biology courses at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain shams University, Cairo, Egypt.