Faten Morris Guirguis did both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. program in Comparative Studies, at Florida Atlantic University. She started her professional career in the business world.
She worked for an airline company for six years and did a lot of traveling to Europe, North America and Asia. She, then, moved to Kuwait with her husband and worked for the South Korean Embassy as a political and economic analyst. Three years later, she moved to Dubai where she worked for Standard Chartered Bank on a project investigating fraud. In 1996, she eventually moved to academia and worked for the Center for American Education. She taught writing courses and literature.
In addition to teaching, she became the Dean of Transfer Programs and Degrees and worked and taught at the Center for six years. Then she moved again, this time to Central Florida where she worked for UCF and then Polk Community College. She speak three languages: English, Arabic and French. She is married and have two daughters.