For his reportage he has been awarded the Katholischer Medienpreis and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre as well as other distinctions. His most recent work, Über das Meer. Mit Syrern auf der Flucht nach Europa (English edition: Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe) was published by Suhrkamp Verlag. The book has been translated into Czech, English and French, supported in part by the Goethe-Institut. An Arabic translation is in preparation.