Academic Peer Reviewed:
“Quiet Symbolism in Contemporary Syrian Art”, Volume 10 (2025): Issue 01-02 (Dec 2025): Special Issue: Disappearance, Re-appearance, and Refusal to Appear: Contemporary Art of the swana Diasporas, edited by Tammer El-Sheikh. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Volume 10 Issue 01-02: Special Issue: Disappearance, Re-appearance, and Refusal to Appear: Contemporary Art of the swana Diasporas, edited by Tammer El-Sheikh (2025)
Conference Presentations:
“Against Spectacle: Syrian Artists and the Ethics of Anti-Violent Image-Making”. Association for Art History (AAH). Panel: Creative Resistance: Responding to Protracted Violence Through Art. University of Cambridge, UK, April 10, 2026
“Curatorial Methods in Uncertain Times. Notes from the Fields”, Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) Conference 2026. Panel conversation: Manar Abo Touk and Kari Cwynar. Tiohtià:ke | Montréal, March 21, 2026
"Suspended Memory: Reem Yassouf’s Cloud and the Textiles of Displacement". Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC). Panel: Threads in Motion: Textiles, Movement and Resistance. Toronto. Canada, October 17, 2025
“The Landmarks of Memory (6:40 min)” + short presentation and a Q&A moderated by Manar Abo Touk (20 min), Christina Hajjar, artist. Postcolonial Hauntologies: Art in the Presence – Absence of the Past, International Symposium, Concordia University Tiohtià:ke | Montréal, March 7, 2025.
"Transformations: Contemporary Syrian Art in the Diaspora". Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC). Panel: Modern and Contemporary Art in the Diasporas of the MENA (Middle East, North Africa), Turkey and Iran). Banff. Canada, October 20, 2023
Exhibition Review:
"Witness and Memories: A Refusal to Forget", (Exhibition Review) Ali Eyal: In the Head’s Dusk / علي عيّال: في غسق الرأس, Curator: Amin Alsaden / امين السادن SAW Gallery, Ottawa December 1, 2022 to March 4, 2023, https://viedesarts.com/en/visites/witness-and-memories-a-refusal-to-forget/
The French translation of this article is also published in the 271 issue of Vie des arts – Summer 2023 Témoin et souvenirs : le refus de l’oubli Vie Des arts, https://viedesarts.com/visites/temoin-et-souvenirs-le-refus-de-loubli/
Art Magazines:
"Where is the Care?", Curatorial perspective, by Manar Abo Touk artworks by Nadine Hajjaj, BlackFlash magazine, issue 40.2 2023, 40.2 – BlackFlash Magazine