Chouaki was a lecturer in physics at the University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene in Bab Ezzouar. She was a keen proponent of women's rights and was head of the Tarwa n'Fadhma n'Soumer association, campaigning for family code reform and equality. The organisation was named after Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, a 19th-century Algerian feminist. Chouaki co-ordinated the 2003 20 ans, barakat! (20 years is enough!) campaign to reform the 1984 Algerian Family Code. The campaign sought to ensure that child and other maintenance support payments were required after a divorce, to outlaw polygamy, to provide equal rights to each party over custody of their children, to outlaw matrimonial guardians and to provide equal rights to a divorce for men and women. Chouaki organised public lectures, conferences, poster campaigns and made use of the internet to promote her cause.