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.

Hajjar received the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and an honourable mention for the 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award. Her film The Landmarks of Memory was awarded Best International Short Documentary at the 2025 Lebanese Independent Film Festival.

Hajjar is passionate about independent publishing and edits Herizons Magazine (on feminism), Carnation Zine (on diaspora and displacement), and qumra journal (on world cinema). Her publication Diaspora Daughter / Diaspora Dyke won Artzine of the Year in 2021. Her writing has appeared in BAHR Magazine, C Magazine, BlackFlash, CV2, Prairie Fire, The Capilano Review, and The Uniter.

She holds a Bachelor of Business and Administration, a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies, and a Multimedia Journalism certificate.

Contact: hajjarchristina (at) gmail (dot) com