Myriam holds a PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Pittsburgh and has been affiliated with Pitt since 2007. An Arabic teacher and world language teacher educator, she has directed and contributed to multiple national projects, including serving as Project Director for the Arabic Genre Writing Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant in collaboration with the National Language Resource Center (NLRC) at Penn State. She has also worked on the Text-based Pedagogy Training Project at the NLRC at CUNY and on the Multiliteracies/Multimodality Project at the NLRC at the University of Arizona.

Her research focuses on the discourse analysis of all types of Arabic texts, including multimodal texts, using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and the Grammar of Visual Design, and on investigating SFL genre-based pedagogy to advance Arabic literacy. She is the author of Arabic Genre Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Assessing in Context (2024). Her work has also been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.