Menna got a major role in the series Where Is My Heart, and she played the role of Toha, the daughter of the artist Hassan Hosni and Khairiya Ahmed, who lives a tumultuous life without restrictions. The series was shown on Ramadan, November 6, 2002.
Dubai co-produced it with the Media Production City in Cairo.[8] In the same year, she appeared in a series for security reasons directed by Mohamed Fadel (director), starring Kamal Al-Shennawy and Majed Al-Masry, in which he presented the role of Sahar, the daughter of an arms dealer who has many enemies, and they kidnap the daughter, which leads to a change in her outlook on life following her return to her father.[9]
Menna appeared in 2003 in several works. In the comedy film, Talk to Mama, she played the role of a country girl in a popular neighborhood who falls in love with a young man, but faces the problem of hostility between her mother, played by Abla Kamel, and the father of the young man, played by Hassan Hosni.[10] The movie faced a lot of criticism from critics
Although he achieved a reasonable public presence,[11] With revenues of seven million pounds.[12] The director of the film, Ahmed Awad, had received a request, which he described as strange, from Menna Shalaby’s mother, the actress, Zizi Mustafa, to watch the latest version of his movie, Talk to Mama, to make sure – according to her saying – that it is free of hot scenes, so that her daughter will not be subjected to a wave of sharp criticism, as happened in her charming first movie. .