[1] Together with her contemporaries, Ervin Hatibi, Agron Tufa, and Rudian Zekthi, Arapi is one of Albania's present-day literary avant-garde writers.

[3] Her first novel, Vajzat me çelës në qafë (2010), translated into German in 2012,[4] was awarded a Book of the Year prize in Albania.

[5] That same year, 1996, she received a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and served as an Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa.

In 2010, she published her first novel, and also translated some German-language texts into Albanian, including poems by Günter Grass, Joseph Roth, Elias Canetti and Felicitas Hoppe.

As a journalist, Arapi has worked as a freelance radio editor[6] for the Albanian program of Deutsche Welle,[5] serving as a correspondent in Vienna.