Awarded for best Feature Writing in 2013 for a critique on the need to reinvigorate the Dubai Shopping Festival and bring back it's original spirit
Received Feature Writing Award from in 2014 for an article on the need for the Dubai Shopping Shopping festival to go sustainable.
1) Photographer of the Year award from Minolta in 1996.
2) Photographer of the Year award from Minolta in 1998.
3) Merit prize in the 1997 BMW Middle East Press Photo competition.
4) First prize in the indoor category and second prize in the outdoor category of the photo contests conducted by Twin Towers, Dubai, which won me a free trip to Singapore.
5) First runner-up in the Dubai International Arts Centre photo exhibition-cum-competition held in 1997.
6) Second runner-up in the 2000 Dubai International Arts Centre photo exhibition-cum-competition.
7) Second prize in the cultural photo contest conducted as part of the 1999 Dubai Summer Surprises Festival.
8) Merit prizes in the 1996 and 1998 photo contests held by the UAE Federal Environmental Agency, Abu Dhabi.
9) Awarded certificate of honour by the UAE Government for my contribution to the environmental cause.
10) Awarded certificate of honour by the UAE Government’s Cultural Foundation for my contribution.
11) Awarded prize by the office of General Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for my photographic contribution during the 1997 Dubai Shopping Festival.
12) Merit prize in the 2000 Life is Great photo competition conducted by Great Eastern company in Singapore.
