She was the youngest child of Gerios Tueni and Katbé Sursock, after Zahié, Michel, Gabriel, Jean and Alfred.
She was a boarding student at the Dames de Nazareth and left in 1899 to Paris to stay with her brother Jean, a Supreme Porte diplomat.
To flee World War I, the Bustros and Tueni families moved to Egypt where Eveline started her career in literature in « Ebauche » and conducted research for a historical novel on the early years of Islam.
Her son pursued his studies there and the family's only trips to Lebanon in those years were mainly summer vacations spent in Aley and Souk el Gharb.
She published « La main d'Allah » by Bossard (Paris 1926) and « Fredons » (Beirut 1929) in which she stressed dialogue and Islamic-Christian rapprochement.
She moved back permanently to Lebanon where she launched in 1931 a number of socio cultural initiatives, including the establishment of « Syriban » and the organization of the first « Salon de Peinture Libanaise » in the Lebanese Parliament.
She presided in 1942 the « Arab Lebanese Women's Union » which grouped all thirty association recognized by the State.
In 1953, she co-founded with Anissa Rawda Najjar the Association for Rural Development which opened scores of free schools in villages.