As an Arab American poet, Alousi is also associate director of InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a creative writing program serving Detroit's youth. Her work has recently appeared in Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and will appear in Mutanabbi Street Starts Here late in 2009.[5] She also has contributed to We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War published in 2012.[6] She received a grant from the Knight Foundation in 2015 for her work pairing recent Iraqi women refugees with artists and writers in order to share their stories through photography and essay.[7]