Managing Editor
Manar Abo Touk, Concordia University (Montreal)
Manar Abo Touk (she/her) is a Syrian-born Canadian independent Art Curator and a PhD student in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. Her dissertation project focuses on contemporary Syrian art post 2011. Specifically, it analyzes displacement on diasporic identities through artists in Canada, Germany, and France. Manar’s most recent positions were as the Arts Manager and Curator at Al Riwaq Art Space in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta. Manar holds an MA in Museum and Gallery Studies from Kingston University, London, UK, and a BA with double majors in History and Theory of Art and Arts Administration from the University of Ottawa. Manar has worked at the Canadian War Museum and Studio Sixty-Six Gallery in Ottawa, and the aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. She was the Arts Manager and Curator at Al Riwaq Art Space in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and most recently as the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta. |