Matbouli has been teaching English as a foreign language for more than 13 years to young adults and adults at different educational institutions in the Middle East. She worked at the American University in Cairo (AUC) both as a teaching fellow during her studying at the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) MA program and then as a language teacher in the Intensive Academic English Program (IEP). Also, she taught business English and conversational English to adults in the corporate department in the School of Continuing Education (SCE), AUC. She assumed the position of the Coordinator of the Intermediate level in Misr International University (MIU) where she held numerous workshops, particularly on second language writing. Now, she is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Research with Higher Education.