Menan Khater received a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Cairo University in May 2013, but she already has gained varied experience as a writer of news and features. Khater is currently Politics and Investigative reporter for Daily News Egypt, Correspondent for the Washington D.C-based International Journalists network (IJNET) Arabic, The News Hub, and Morocco World News.

Earlier in 2014 Khater worked as GlobalPost visiting fellow for the project: Generation TBD, a contributor of features and investigatory reports the English-language magazine (Egypt Today).

Khater applied to ICFJ’s training program in the use of digital tools for public service journalism, “Building a Digital Gateway to Better Lives” and completed six weeks of online training in March and April 2012. ICFJ invited her to advance to a series of two training boot camps at the Jordan Media Institute in Amman, Jordan in June and October 2012. The end product of the training program is an investigative multimedia website: Khater devoted her project to revealing and humanizing mentally ill patients in Egypt who are discharged from hospitals and become homeless.

Based on the high potential she exhibited, ICFJ selected Khater to advance to a special round of the training program in which trainees from different countries form teams to investigative issues that cross borders and affect all of their countries. Her project "Fighters in Syria" was awarded as second best digital cross-border investigative report in the middle east from the ICFJ.

She gained Internet experience in 2010, and 2011 translating and rewriting articles for the pop culture website ActionHa.net launched by the regional satellite station MBC Action; and in 2011, covering news events including protests after the January 25 uprising for the youth-oriented www.BokraNews.net.