Mariam holds a PhD in Mathematics Education from Cambridge University, and now works in Cairo, Egypt. She is a critical scholar whose thinking is grounded in political economy and decomposing curriculum reform to ask whether reforms serve to reproduce colonialist thought. In this vein, she investigates sociocultural power dynamics and politics, anti-colonialist thought, and (perceived lack of cultural/communal) assets in education. One of her particular areas of interest relates to the material differences in education in Africa versus the West, and how historical political arrangements create situations of inequity and the implications for this in cross-cultural exchange of ideas on curriculum reform.