Awards
- Literature Matters Award, The Royal Society of Literature 2021
- National Writer’s Centre Virtual Residency: Visible Communities May-August 2021
- Translation Grant from Anglo-Omani Society 2020
- Summer School Scholarship, British Centre for Literary Translation 2020
- Longlist, Short Story Day Africa Award 2020
- Shortlist, Palestine Book Awards 2020
- English PEN Translation Award 2020
- Kirkus Star 2019
- English PEN Translation Award 2019
- Arablit Short Story Prize 2019
- Best Print Reference, Language and Linguistics Category, Library Journal
(Team Award for Oxford Arabic Dictionary) 2014 - Commemoration on Founders’ Wall of African Leadership Academy 2010
- African Leadership Foundation Teaching Fellowship 2009-2011