Career
She moved to Finland in 1981. In 2011 she moved to Amsterdam where she resides with her South African daughter. In the 1990"s she was a journalist, documentary maker and columnist.
She became known to the wider public as the first non-white presenter of the weekly current affairs news-program Ajankohtainen Kakkonen at the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE. Abu-Hanna was also the cultural diversity adviser of the Finnish National Gallery (3 museums of fine art).
Her first novel Nurinkurin was published in 2003. Her book on identity Sinut was published in 2007.
A manual for the cultural field Multikulti 2012. A cultural history of modern Helsinki Alienin Silmin 2014.
She was the co-writer of "A changing world, perspectives on heritage" with case study of museums in Afghanistan.
She is working on a book of ethics for children.