Books, Catalogues and Exhibition Essays
“Gauging the air we breathe with Christina Battle,” exhibition text for the air we breathe, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, January 6 – February 4, 2023.
“On Living the Good Life,” exhibition essay for UPRISING: The Power of Mother Earth, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, University of Carleton University Art Gallery and the Mackenzie Art Gallery, 2021.
“A Fragmentary Illumination,” exhibition text for Dew and Dust: Recent works by Pardiss Amerian, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, ON, September 18 – October 23, 2021.
“Jane Ash Poitras,” exhibition text for Rebellious: Alberta Women Artists in the 1980s. Art Gallery of Alberta, November 9, 2019 – February 16, 2020.
“English is a Foreign Language.” exhibition essay for Other Histories: Amin Rehman, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB: July 7 — August 5, 2017.
“Recording Home and Place: The Art of Frank Shebageget” exhibition brochure for Home | Works, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2017. ISBN 978-1-927926-03-1.
“Hidden Histories” exhibition brochure for Continuum: Sonny Assu, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-927926-02-4
“Finding A Way,” exhibition catalogue essay for Nowhere is a Place, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-927926-00-0.
“Q&A with Sam Shahsahabi,” exhibition catalogue essay for War and Deception, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-920539-99-6
“meditations on colour and form,” exhibition catalogue essay for mediation on colour and form, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-920539-97-2
“A Projection of History,” exhibition essay for Tagore: Bright Oriental Star, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, ON, 2011.
“War and Comprehension” catalogue essay for Black Holes featuring Amin Rehman at Lambton Gallery, Sarnia, ON, 2009.
“The Rooms Are Never Finished,” exhibition essay for Greyscale Rainbow featuring Matt Shane and Jim Holyoak at articule, Montréal, QC, 2009.
“A Brush with Celebrity” exhibition essay for In Reverie, In Sympathy featuring Emily Bennett Beck at articule, Montréal, QC, 2008.
“Reflections on Mediation, Metaphor and the Age of Anger,” exhibition essay for Mediation, Metaphor and the Age of Anger featuring Soheila K. Esfahani, Fatima Garzan and Farhang Jalali at Gallery 96, Stratford, ON, 2007.
“Collecting Works from the Street: Big Stories, Little India,” exhibition essay for Big Stories, Little India, a site-specific installation at SAVAC. 2007.
“Negotiating Identities and Traversing through Time: A Look at the work of KC Adams and Farheen HaQ,” exhibition catalogue essay for In-between featuring KC Adams and Farheen Haq at TRUCK Gallery: Calgary, AB, 2006.
“Converging Sites: Muslim Sacred Spaces and the Practice of Architecture”, exhibition catalogue essay for Muqarnas: Intersections of Contemporary Islamic Architecture at the Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catherine’s, ON, 2006.
Reviews
Exhibition review of “George Littlechild: Here I am – can you see me?,” Edmonton, Alberta, November 6, 2021 – March 13, 2022. Journal of Curatorial Studies, Volume 11, Issue 2, October 2022, pp. 238 – 242.
Exhibition review of “Lahore Biennale 02: Between the Sun and the Moon,” Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan, January 26 – February 29, 2020. Journal of Curatorial Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, October 2020, pp. 275-279.
Exhibition review of “Grasping at the Roots,” Mitchell Art Gallery, 17 January – 28 March, 2020, Canadian Art, (Fall 2020): 111-112.
Exhibition review of “Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada,” Art Gallery of Alberta, 29 September 2018 – 6 January 2019, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, vol. 6, issue 1-2 (July 2020): 187-190. ISSN:2352-3077, Online ISSN: 2352-3085.
Exhibition review of “Visions of Mughal India,” Aga Khan Museum, February 21-June 21, 2015, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, vol.5, issue 3 (December 2015): 407-409. ISSN: 20455895, E-ISSN: 20455909.
Exhibition review of “Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture,’” Textile Museum of Canada, 18 May – Nov 20, 2011, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, vol.1, issue 2 (August 2012): 407-409. ISSN: 20455895, Online ISSN: 20455909.
Profiles
“A House for Guidance: The Baitul Hadi Mosque and the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Community in Edmonton,” Edmonton City as a Museum Project, October 21, 2021.
“Committed to Community: Hilwie Hamdon and the Ladies’ Muslim Association,” Edmonton City as a Museum Project, February 2, 2021.
“Profiles on Practice: Tazeen Qayyum,” Femme Art Review. July, 2020.
“Profiles on Practice: Khadija Baker,” Femme Art Review. September, 2020.
“Profiles on Practice: Yen-Chao Lin,” Femme Art Review. September 2019.
“Profiles on Practice: Christina Battle,” Femme Art Review. August 2019.
“Profiles on Practice: Meera Sethi,” Femme Art Review. July 2019.
“Profiles on Practice: Soheila K. Esfahani,” Femme Art Review. June 2019.
“Profiles on Practice: Shawna Davis,” Femme Art Review. May 2019.
Interviews
“Walking Through Nonsuch: A Conversation with Morgan Melenka,” Peripheral Review, Online, June 18, 2023.
“Traditions Unbound: An Interview with Jamelie Hassan,” BlackFlash Magazine (38.3), Fall/Winter 2022.
N.A. Mansour, “Islamic Art in Contemporary Canada: Nadia Kurd on BlackFlash’s Infinities Issue,” Hazine, March 7, 2022.
Articles
“Weaving to Reclaim the Bonds of Culture and Land,” SDUK 12: BONDING, Blackwood Gallery: Toronto, May 2022.
“Choice: ‘Qiviuq’s Journey’ (1973) by Martha and William Noah,” Inuit Art Quarterly, 33.2, Summer 2020.
“Lasting Impressions: Christi Belcourt and the Potency of Indigenous Printmaking”, SNAPLine: Resistance Issue, Summer 2019.
“Binding Ties: Family Relationships and the Museum Collection.” ActiveHistory.ca: University of Saskatchewan, 2019.
“The Kashmir Conflict in Contemporary Art,” Esse Magazine, issue 96, Spring 2019.
“Redefining the Past: Christian Chapman’s Edmazinbiiget and the Remaking of Anishinaabe Visual Art.” BlackFlash Magazine, 35.3, Winter 2018.
“Love and Kindness in Every Stitch: Leanna Marshall’s Zaagi’idiwin Project.” MAWA Critical Writing, Spring Newsletter, 2018.
“The Mosque as Heritage Site: The Al-Rashid at Fort Edmonton Park and the Politics of Location,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 52.1 (Fall 2018). E-ISSN 1911-0251 | ISSN 0021-9495.
“Finding A Space for the Mosque” Kapsula Magazine, SPACELESS PLACE, 2017.
“Honouring Through Ceremony: Walking With Our Sisters at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.” MUSEUM PARTICIPATION: Engaging and Involving Audiences, Kayte McSweeney and Jennifer Kavanagh, eds. MuseumsEtc: Edinburgh, UK, 2017.
“Sacred Manifestations: The Construction of Islamic Architecture in Canada,” Journal of Canadian Art History 2, vol. XXXIII (Fall 2012): 149-169.
“Scholar’s Choice: Nadia Kurd reflects on the Gilles Gagnon Postcard Collection.” Canadian Centre for Architecture, Study Centre, Montréal, QC, 2009.