Alhinai has served as the founder of Sekka, and has written feature articles and opinion articles on a variety of topics, including art, culture, literature, media, and cultural diplomacy, and interviewed numerous notable personalities such as Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, International Booker Prize winner Marilyn Booth, and Advisor to the President of the UAE, His Excellency Zaki Nusseibeh.

She has also written for international publications, media outlets, and think tanks including National Geographic, Entrepreneur Middle East, BBC Arabic, Alarabiya, the Middle Institute Washington D.C., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington D.C., and the Arab Gulf States Institute Washington D.C. Her interview with acclaimed author Layla AlAmmar was also published in the latest edition of her novel, Silence Is A Sense (Algonquin Books 2022).