Awards And Honors
- 2011 best film and best screenplay in Beirut International Film Festival for Hawi
- 2011 special mention in San Francisco Arab film festival for Hawi.
- 2011 film Critics award in Rabat International Film Festival for Hawi
- 2010 Best Arab Film in Doha Tribeca Film Festival for “Hawi”
- 2009 Best Film in San Francisco Arab Film Festival for “Ein Shams”
- 2008 “Ein Shams” is rated #6 of the10 Best Films of the Year.
- 2008 The Golden Bull, First Prize at the 54th Taormina Film Festival for “Ein Shams”.
- 2008 The Golden Hawk in Rotterdam Festival for “Ein Shams”.
- 2008 International Carthage Festival Award For “Ein Shams”.
- 2003 Rory Peck Sony International Impact Award Finalist (United Kingdom) for “Mass Graves in Iraq”.
- 2000 Axel Springer Award (Germany) for “A Day of an Ambulance Driver in Ramalla”.
- 1996 ECHO (European Union) for “The Victim of a War that Ended”.
- 1994 Axel Springer Award (Germany) for “Female Circumcision in Ethiopia”.
- 1991 Honorary Award TBS (Japan) for the coverage of the first Gulf War.