[1] Malouf was born in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon, the daughter of Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh.
They spent two years in London before moving to Saudi Arabia, where her father, construction engineer Fouad Malouf, was based.
She also worked as an assistant to the stylist Yvonne Sporre, before turning her full attention to illustration.
[6] She worked on Trilogy for about six years, while also collaborating on Wes Anderson’s films The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom.
Malouf and Anderson also co-curated the exhibition Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,[8] later published as a book.