In 2009 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the annual Stonewall Awards for her special report on "corrective rape" of lesbian women in South Africa. The report was made after ActionAid contacted her about their campaign against homophobic crime. She won the BBC's "Celebrity Mastermind", with a specialist round on Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the "Little House on the Prairie" books, in December 2010. Again, in 2019 Ahmed won the "Celebrity Mastermind" Champion of Champions, she wore a "Space 1999" costume.