Hanadi is a recipient of the University Gold Medal for English Literature (Aligarh Muslim University, Batch 2007) and acted as a Cultural Ambassador for a semester at University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Over the years, she had a varied and stimulating career – from being a Communications Director, an Editor and Digital Content Specialist to a Stereo Compositor and a Rotoscopy artist. She revived her passion for writing in 2013 when she quit her 3D animation and VFX career to get a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Hanadi has now returned to India where she has been busy writing.