Awards
- Hasselblad Award. 2011
- Alpert Award for Visual Arts from the Herb Alpert Foundation. 2007 (Winner)
- Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for 2007 (First Prize)
- Rencontres d’Arles (2006), “Lauréat d’Aide au projet” (Help for a new project), Arles
- Camera Austria Award (2005)
- Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival. 2002 (First Prize)
- Vidarte 2002 Festival, Mexico City, Mexico. 2002 (First Prize)
- Oneiras Film and Video Festival, Lisboa, Portugal. 2002 (First Prize)
- Media Arts Awards, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. 2002 (Special Prize)
- Black Maria Festival, 2002. (Juror Citation Award)
- Video Ex, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001. (First Prize)
- Oberhausen Film and VideoFest, Oberhausen, Germany, 2001 (Rhineland Award)
- San Francisco International Film Festival, SF, CA, USA, 2000 (Certificate of Merit)
- 5th Biennial of Arab Cinemas, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2000 (Special Jury Prize)
- VideoEx, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000. (First Prize)
- 8th Biennial of the Moving Image, Switzerland, 1999. (Grand Prize)
- Beirut Film Festival, Beirut, Lebanon, 1999. (Best Short Film and Best Scenario for a Short Film)
- Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey, 1999. (Director’s Citation)
- Missouri Video Festival, St. Louis, MO, 1998. (Award of Accomplishment Experimental)
- New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA, 1997. (Best Conceptual Innovation Award)
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