Awards
- F.G. Bressani Literary Prize
- Canada Council for the Arts Joseph Staford award,
- 2009: Inaugural Writer-in-Residence, Historic Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver B.C.
- 2001-2004: Chair of the Advisery Committee on Arab and Moslem Affairs for the Ministry of Canadian Multiculturalism
- 1996-2002: President of the Canadian Arab Federation
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