Beirut: Eye of the Storm w/ Seven Villages

Co-presented film screening with Toronto Palestine Film Festival, in person (Toronto) Sept 22, online Sept 22-28.

BlackFlash Magazine

Published essay in Spring 2022 issue: “Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings: The Summer of 2020”

Descendance

Group exhibition curated by Myriam Farah Cobb and Darren Pottie at SPAO Gallery (Ottawa), May 20 to October 1, 2022.

Lebanon’s Rose وردة لبنان

Window Gallery exhibition, November 4, 2022 to January 9, 2023, Xpace Culture Centre (Toronto).

qumra journal

qumra, reflections on world cinema; a new collaboration between SWANA Film Festival, MENA Film Festival, and Toronto Arab Film Festival. Issue 1: Take 1 available now.

Habibi Blue

2021 Artist Edition Tote for Peripheral Review available for sale.

Emerging Digital Artists Award

Honourable Mention for the 2021 EDAA, Trinity Square Video.

Best Artzine Award

Diaspora Daughter / Diaspora Dyke, winner of Best Artzine, 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards.

Best Manitoba Short Film

Don’t Forget the Water, winner of Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award, 2021 Gimli Film Festival.

Meet Lebanese-Canadian Christina Hajjar Who Is Defying Social Norms Through Art

Artist profile on 961, Lebanese independent media outlet.

Responses to the 2022 SWANA Film Festival

Review by Chantal Khoury: “On The Tactility of Loss in Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba.”
Review by Sarah Sarofim: “Archiving Processes.”

Responses to Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings

Review by Shima Aghaaminiha & Shamim Aghaaminiha, Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre.
Review by Abedar Kamgari, PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts.
Poetic response by Banah el Ghadbanah, PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts.

Q & A: Christina Hajjar. Discussing the aesthetics of queer diaspora and the everyday.

Interview by Lindsay Inglis, Galleries West.