2025-2016

Selected Scholarships / Grants

2025: Tarabya Cultural Academy residency. Istanbul. Turkey.
2024: Scholarship / German Literaturfund.
2024: Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen residency. Germany.
2023: A grant from the Acum Foundation for the Promotion of Israeli Art and Literature for the publication of the poetry collection It's This Happiness, You Wanted Me to Touch.
2022: The novel The Prize was shortlisted for the Shulamit Aloni Literary Prize.
2022: A literary grant from the Neustart Kultur and VG Wort.
2021: The Berlin Senate awards a full grant for the Middle East Union Festival.
2021: A grant from the Acum Foundation for the Promotion of Israeli Art and Literature for the publication of the novel The Prize.
2020: A grant from the Acum Foundation for the Promotion of Israeli Art and Literature for the publication of the essays book An Eruption from the East: Revisiting the Emergence of the Mizrahi Artistic Explosion and Its Imprint on the Israeli Cultural Narrative 2006-2019.
2020: A full grant from the Lottery Fund for Literature for the publication of the essays book An Eruption from the East: Revisiting the Emergence of the Mizrahi Artistic Explosion and Its Imprint on the Israeli Cultural Narrative 2006-2019.
2018: Hörspiel - Das künftige Ufer (The Future Shore), WDR.

Festivals (Partial list)

2025 Istanbul Offline Poetry Festival. Turkey.
2022: L’CHAIM - AUF EIN WORT|FESTIVAL - Zentrum für verfolgte Künste. Germany.
2021: Das Lyrikfestival - Innsbrucker Festspiele, Austria.
2021: Mygration Festival in Berlin.
2019: Deutsch-Israelische Literaturtage. Böll-Stiftung und Goethe-Institut.Berlin.
2017: Radical Jewish Festival - Maxim Gorki Theater.
2017: Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem. Israel.
2017: LCB Berlin Sommerfest.
2016: Helicon International Literary Festival, Israel.
2016: Internationales Literaturfestival Basel, Schweiz.

Selected Conferences

2025 Diasporic Knowledge: Jewish-Diasporic Himeland(s)? Organized by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg with Käte Hamburger Kollege.
2024 Secularization and Discontent: Jewish Literatures and Cultures of the 20th and 21st Centuries organized by Chair for Jewish Studies, Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University.
2023 Voices Against Silence: A Jewish-Israeli-German Encounter. Organized by Universita CaFoscari and Archivio Scritture Scrittrici Migranti. Venezia. Italy.

2015- 2011

2015: Best Book of the Year Prize, "Yekum Tarbut".
2014: 'Digital Roundtable' conference at Cornell University. U.S.A.
2014: A reading on the Arab-Jewish Texts conference, University of Chicago. U.S.A.
2012: Attended a translation workshop at Literaturwerkstatt Berlin.
2011: Honourable mention at the Einat Annual Science Fiction Short Story Contest.
2011: Honourable mention at the Haaretz Annual Short Story Contest.

2010: A literyr grant from the Rabinovich Foundation literary Grant, Israel.
2009-2010: Living Expenses Scholarship, Department of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University, Israel.
2008-2010: Full Research Scholarship, ISEF, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2008-2010: Herzl Scholarship, Charik Centre for Zionist Studies, Israel.
2007-2008: Excellence Scholarship, Mandel Institute, Jerusalem.
2006: A literary grant, Haifa Culture Fund, Israel.
2003-2006: Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, Department of General History, University of Haifa, Israel.
2006: Research Scholarship, CSUS, University of Haifa, Israel.
2006: Grant from the Iraqi Jewish Fund for my second poetry book, Poetry Between Hazaz and Shemoelof, Israel.
2003-2006: Full scholarship for university graduates, ISEF, University of Haifa, Israel.
2001: Best Poetry Book of the Year, National Lottery Arts Fund, Israel, Scar Minimizer.