2025-2016

Selected Scholarships / Grants

  • 2026 Mentoring-Programm SulExTRA. Lettrétage. Berlin.

  • 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)

  • 2026 Meridian Czernowitz International Poetry Festival.Ukraine. (Forthcoming).

  • 2026 Jutta's Festival, Branderburg.

  • 2026 Miss Read Festival. Berlin.

  • 2026 Expo Poetry 27 Festival, Versopolis, Slovenia.

  • 2025 OMANUT Forum für jüdische Kunst und Kultur; Zürich. Schweiz.

  • 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

  • 2026 I presented the lecture “Navigating Arab-Jewish Diaspora between Baghdad and Berlin: Reclaiming Identity and Memory in the Heart of Europe” at the conference “Teaching Jewish Diversity Between East and West” at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

  • 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 I presented the lecture “Brit Mila and Bar Mitzvah: Examining Secularization and traditionalism in the Arab-Jews (Mizrahi) context through the short stories of Ayelet Tsabari and Adamit Pereh.“ at the conference 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 Università Ca’ Foscari and Archivio Scritture Scrittrici Migranti. Venice. 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- 2001

  • 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.