Manahel is a Syrian writer and journalist advocating for human rights, refugees, and women. She has been working in journalism since 2016, writing about feminist, cultural, political, and social issues for several Arab websites such as Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. She is in charge of the Syrian dossier on the Daraj website.
Manahel is also a poet and playwright, winner of the Italian Tulliola Prize in 2021 for her first poetry collection Thirty Minutes on a Booby-Trapped Bus which describes her life as a woman during the Syrian war, and the Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity for her play Battery for a Flashlight in 2017.