Ghofran's career began in the 1980s but really picked up between 1988 and 1998, elevating her to the status of Arab diva, in part due to the work of her then-husband and manager Ibrahim Aakad.
[2] Ghofran left to Paris and London due to her family's rejection of her interest in pursuing a career in music, and started singing for Arab communities in hotels and restaurants.
In 1989, she released her first album “Oyounak Amari”, whose songs like "Awraqi El Adima" grew popular among audiences.
In 1996, she released one of her best-selling and most popular albums, "Jabar", which included remakes of songs by legendary Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Despite the impact and huge success of the song, Rotana insisted that the album didn't do well on the charts, forcing Ghofran to sue to the record label and eventually cut ties with them.
[6] On November 27, 2008, Ghofran's daughter, Hiba, 23, and her Saudi friend, Nadine Khaled Gamal, were found by Nadine's fiance, stabbed in the latter's apartment in Al Nada complex in Sixth of October City's Sheikh Zayed district in a case that garnered media and public attention.
In 2010, Mahmoud Al Issawi was sentenced to death,[8] and the capital punishments took place at the Wadi al-Natrun prison in 2014.