Her father, Elias Shoufani, went to Princeton and served as a Palestine Liberation Organization leader and politician.
Shoufani began her education at the Lebanese American University in Beirut where she studied communicative arts.
[citation needed] She is the founder of the Poeticians, which was started in Beirut in 2007,[1] and is a multilingual public reading forum for poets of all backgrounds to perform spoken word and poetry and is held in various cities including Dubai and Beirut.
[6] Shoufani's free verse poetry tackles themes of love, death, lust, identity, Palestinian interests, freedom, and feminist issues in the Arab world.
Anna Seaman has referred to it as "a frank and personal journey through the loss of her beloved mother to cancer, the distance from and simultaneous bond she feels with her activist father, the struggle and plight of being a Palestinian refugee and the sadness of unrequited love.