The American Academy of Arts and Letters Blake-Dodd Prize for Non Fiction -2020
Guggenheim Fellowship, Non Fiction -2019-2020
Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations - 2016-2017
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Pakis Fellow 2015-2016
May Chidiac Foundation Engaged Journalist Award, 2017 (Beirut, Lebanon)
Hay Festival Prize for Prose - The Morning They Came For Us, 2016
"100 Influential People Reducing Armed Violence" - Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), 2013
Helen Bernstein Book Award, New York Public Library, Excellence in Journalism Shortlist, 2017
National Magazine Award 2000 for "Madness Visible" in Vanity Fair
Amnesty Media Prize 2000, 2001 (twice awarded, once shortlisted, 2012)
President of Jury, Prix Bayeux Prize for War Reporters, Bayeux, France, 2010
The Nation Investigation Fund (two times recipient) 2012, 2013
Pakis Fellow at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2015-2016
Spears Memoir of the Year, "Ghosts by Daylight" 2011
Foreign Correspondent of the Year (Britain) 2000
Headliner Award for Excellence in Journalism (work in Syria=
Ida Beam Distinguished Professor, The Iowa Writers´Workshop 2016
International Impact Award, 2017, University of Iowa
Stillwater Alumni Award, University of Maine, 2008
