Awards and Honors
- PEN America, Honorary member (2000)
- Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, International Press Freedom Award (2000)
- The Middle East Studies Association of North America, MESA Academic Freedom Prize (2005)
- Press Freedom Award, Italy (2005)
- World Association of Newspapers, Golden Pen of Freedom (2006)
- Honorary citizen of the city of Florence, Italy (2006)
- Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (2006)
- National Press Club, John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award (2006)
- John Humphrey Freedom Award, Rights & Democracy (2007)
- Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty (2010)
- World Press Freedom Hero, International Press Institute (2010)
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