In 2010, Benaissa won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award "Culture Personality of the Year", an award worth about $300,000.
Translation: Sa'ad Abdulaziz Maslouh, Translation Theory: Contemporary Trends (translation of Edwin Gentzler's Contemporary Translation Theories)
2007 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature, for his 2004 novel The Prince's Book: The Paths of the Wooden Gates.
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