[2][1] She is a four-time Olympian, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[3] and is a member of Association sportive de Bourg-la-Reine in France, under head coach Yann Detienne.

[1] Boubakri represented Tunisia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's individual foil event.

She lost the first preliminary round match to Chinese-born Canadian fencer and former Olympic gold medalist Jujie Luan with a score of 9–13.

Unlike her previous Olympics, she excelled through the preliminary rounds by defeating United States' Nicole Ross, and France's Astrid Guyart.

[10] In 2014 Boubakri married French fencer Erwann Le Péchoux,[11] who also won a medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.