Shehabi has published poems in many journals including Contemporary Arab-American Poetry, Crab Orchard, DMQ Review, Drunken Boat, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, Poetry London and The Poetry of Arab Women among others and was nominated for a Pushcart prize four times. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Persian, and French.[5] Her first book, Thirteen Departures from the Moon, was published in 2011 and through poetry discussed the feeling of being trapped between two worlds.[6][7] A special section of American Book Review in its November–December 2012 issue reviewed Arab-American literature. Shehabi was one of the authors whose works were reviewed in-depth and was mentioned elsewhere in the issue as masterful in her use of ghazal.[8]