- Shortlist, National Book Award for Translated Literature 2024 (For The Book Censor’s Library)
- Shortlist, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize 2023 (For What Have You Left Behind?)
- Shortlist, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023 (For What Have You Left Behind?)
- Longlist, Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing 2023 (For What Have You Left Behind?)
- Translator in Residence, British Centre for Literary Translation 02-05/2022
- English PEN Translates Award 2023 (For Woman of the Rivers)
- Shortlist, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize 2021 (For A Bed for the King’s Daughter)
- English PEN Translates Award 2021 (For Behind the Sun)
- English PEN Translates Award 2021 (For The Djinn’s Apple)
- The Royal Society of Literature ‘Literature Matters’ Award 2021
- World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2020 (For Passage to the Plaza)
- Translation Grant from Anglo-Omani Society 2020
- Summer School Scholarship, British Centre for Literary Translation 2020
- Shortlist, Palestine Book Awards 2020 (For Passage to the Plaza)
- English PEN Translates Award 2020 (For Edo’s Souls)
- Longlist, Short Story Day Africa Award 2020 (For Armando’s Virtuous Crime)
- English PEN Translates Award 2019 (For Catalogue of a Private Life)
- Arablit Story Prize 2019
- Kirkus Star 2019 (For Ghady and Rawan)
- Best Print Reference, Language and Linguistics Category, Library Journal (Team Award for Oxford Arabic Dictionary) 2014
