Iman is a landscape archaeologist, field researcher, and cultural surveyor with more than 15 years of experience in North Africa, the broader Mediterranean, and Southeast Asia. In her earlier career she focused on settlement archaeology and religious landscapes, working on projects in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. As her research led her to investigate the movement of ideology and material culture across vast distances, she turned her focus to the prehistoric Sahara in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, studying rock inscriptions and landscape configuration.

More recently, her archaeological work has incorporated coastal landscapes including the Canary and Madeira islands, where she has explored connections to the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa that date back 10,000 years.

Now based at the University of California, Los Angeles, Iman continues to follow her passion for the spectacular landscapes of the prehistoric world, working at sites ranging from the early neolithic to contemporary periods. Her research has been shared widely in international conferences. Iman takes great pleasure in demystifying archaeology, sharing her unique insights from the field, and shedding light on connections between cultures of the deep past.