In 1973 she published her fourth collection, رحيل المرافئ القديمة "The Departure of Old Ports", considered by some critiques one of the most important of her works.
After the publication of two more novels, كوابيس بيروت "Beirut Nightmares" in 1977, which describes life in civil-war-torn Beirut in the mid-Seventies, and ليلة المليار "The Eve of Billion" in 1986, she was referred to as the most prominent modern Arab writer by some critics.