Christina Hajjar is a Lebanese artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 territory. Her practice considers intergenerational inheritance, domesticity, and place through diaspora, body archives, and cultural iconography. As a queer femme and first-generation subject, she is invested in the poetics of process, translation, and collaborative labour.

Her work involves photography, film, food, publishing, and curating. She navigates the worlds of fine art, film, journalism, and print media through a common interest in feminist refusal, counter-archiving, and relational aesthetics.

Hajjar was a recipient of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and she received an honourable mention for the 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award. Her film The Landmarks of Memory won Best International Short Documentary at the Lebanese Independent Film Festival (2025) and her film Don’t Forget the Water won the Jury Award and Audience Choice Award at Gimli Film Festival (2021).

She is passionate about independent publishing and edits Herizons (Canada’s foremost feminist magazine), Carnation Zine (on diaspora and displacement), and qumra journal (on world cinema). Her zine Diaspora Daughter, Diaspora Dyke won Best Artzine at the Broken Pencil Zine Awards (2021). Hajjar’s writing has appeared in C Magazine, BlackFlash Magazine, The Capilano Review, The Uniter, CV2, Prairie Fire, and PaperWait.

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