Sudan Scholarship” awarded by the University of Bergen to a young Sudanese active in Social Anthropology on the occasions of celebrating the Bergen-Khartoum collaboration and in appreciation of 50 years of dedicated research and education (a scholarship allowing the recipient to stay in Bergen for a period of six months doing research and organized at the Department of Social Anthropology), 2014.

• Travel grant to attend the 5^th European Conference on African Studies, 2013, Instituto Universitário de Libboa: ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Travel/accommodation grants to attend the 26^th Annual Conference of the Sudan Studies Association, 2007, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America.
• Travel/accommodation grants to attend the 7^th International Sudan Studies Conference, 2006, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• DAAD scholarship for one academic year (01.10.2002–30.09.2003), at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
• DAAD grant for preparatory German language course (03.06.2002–27.09.2002), at “deutsch in deutschland” (did) Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.