Emmy Award | Arabic language | Grammy Award | Arkansas | Tony Award | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | translation | National Book Award | Daytime Emmy Award | University of Arkansas | Juno Award | Fayetteville, Arkansas | Little Rock, Arkansas | Arkansas River | Arabic alphabet | Obie Award | Golden Globe Award | Primetime Emmy Award | Springdale, Arkansas | Drama Desk Award | César Award | Academy Award for Best Picture | Rogers, Arkansas | Edgar Award | Konex Award | Fort Smith, Arkansas | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | Academy Award for Best Original Song | Eisner Award | Latin Grammy Award |
He has authored and edited numerous scholarly publications, and won the 2005 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for his translation of the muqaddima or introduction to a work of history by Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf, the 19th-century Tunisian bureaucrat and reformer.
A book of his poems Quartet of Joy was translated by Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden and won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award.
Points of the Compass, a volume of her short stories translated by Marilyn Booth, won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 1994.
In 2011, Selim won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award for her translation of Jurji Zaydan's novel Shajarat al-Durr, based on the life of the Mamluk sultana.