Manar Abo Touk is a Syrian-born Canadian curator and PhD student in the Art History Department at Concordia University. Her dissertation project focuses on contemporary Syrian art post 2011. Specifically, it analyzes displacement on representations of identity by Arab diasporic artists in Canada, Germany, France, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. She holds a Masters in Museum and Gallery Studies from Kingston University London, UK, and a Bachelor 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 is currently the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta.

keywords that highlight my research interests
Syrian Art, transnational art, diasporic identities, revolution and war art, global art histories 

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