2019-2016

  • 2019, I participated in the “Poetry in the Desert” festival. Sde Boker. Israel.

  • 2018, My first Hörspiel “Das künftige Ufer” was aired at WDR. It was a special project about the future of the Middle East.

  • 2018, National Lottery Art Trust. “Iton 77” publishers secured a grant to publish my article book.

  • 2017, Radical Jewish Festival – Maxim Gorki Theater. I was invited to participate as part of “Ars Poetica” and “Poetic Hafla” poetry groups.

  • 2017, Musrara Mix festival. Jerusalem. A special performance that I created for the festival “Mizrahi in Berlin”

  • 2017, LCB Berlin Sommerfest. Poetry reading with non German writers.

  • 2016, Helicon International Literary Festival. Israel. I was invited to an immigration workshop  with other international writers like Efe Duyan and more.

  • 2016, Basel International Literary Festival. Switzerland. I was invited with the poets Adi Keissar and Max Czollek to read my poems.

 
 

2015- 2011

  • 2015, Best Book of Year Prize, Yekum Tarbut. Israel. My first collection of short stories won as a best book of 2015.

  • 2014, Arab Jewish Texts Conference, Chicago University. USA. I was invited to read my poems in a very special conference.

  • 2014, Rabinovich Foundation Prize. Israel. My book of articles “An eruption from the east: Re visiting the emergence of the Mizrahi artistic explosion and it's imprint on the Israeli cultural narrative 2006-2019” won a grant.

  • 2013, Acum Grant. Israel.  My book of articles “An eruption from the east: Re visiting the emergence of the Mizrahi artistic explosion and it's imprint on the Israeli cultural narrative 2006-2019” won a grant.

  • 2012, Translation Workshop, Literaturwerkstatt. Berlin. I was invited to read my poems and to translate them. The German writer Mirko Bonné translated my poems into German. They were also recorded Lyrikline.

  • 2011, Honorable Mention, Haaretz Annual Short Story Contest. Israel.

  • 2011, Honorable Mention,  Einat Annual Science Fiction Short Story Contest.

 
 

2010- 2001

  • 2010, Rabinovich Foundation Prize. Israel.

  • 2009–2010, Living Stipends, The Department of Hebrew Literature, The Hebrew University. Israel.

  • 2008–2010, Full Graduate Grant, ISEF, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Israel.

  • 2008–2010, Herzel Scholarship, The Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism. Israel.

  • 2007–2008, Scholarship of Excellence, The Mandel Institute in Jerusalem.

  • 2006, Best Poetry Book of the Year, Haifa Cultural Foundation. Israel.

  • 2003–2006, Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, The Department of General History, University of Haifa. Israel.

  • 2006, Research Grant, CSUS, University of Haifa. Israel.

  • 2006, Iraqi Jews Foundation Grant for my Second Poetry Book “Poetry between Hazaz and Shemoelofname here”. Israel.

  • 2006, Haifa Cultural Foundation Grant for my second Poetry Book “Poetry between Hazaz and Shemoelofname here” . Israel.

  • 2006, Scholarship of Excellence, University of Haifa. Israel.

  • 2003-2006, Full Graduate Grant, ISEF, University of Haifa. Israel.

  • 2001, Best Debut Poetry Book of the Year, National Lottery Art Trust. Israel. “Scar Minimizer”