Farraj obtained her master’s degree in international humanitarian law from Aix-Marseille University in France, and her bachelor’s degree from Birzeit University with a major of law and minor of political science. Farraj has a degree of Diploma of humanitarian and international field jurist from Aix-Marseille University in France. She did an internship in the Republic of Colombia for five months through Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC); a Canadian organization located in Quebec that works to create a direct solidarity network with Colombian communities. In France, Farraj was a member of the legal clinic for international human rights law at the institute of international humanitarian studies at Aix-Marseille University, and a volunteer in Cimade; a French association that works for active solidarity with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Since March 2018, she has enrolled in the DAAD project “Violence, Forced Migration and Exile: Trauma in the Arab World and in Germany” at Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Farraj is a council member of Falistiniyat Organization.