 His work was shown in numerous exhibitions sometimes in collaboration with institutions like the "Institut des cultures arabes et méditerranéennes" in Geneva.2017.He was granted the highest awards in Egypt and internationally, among them in 1961 was the Guggenheim Award.In 2001, he was honored alongside Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz in the soft opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which was entitled “The brush and the pen," by publishing a book about his work.