Before moving back to the Netherlands, Nour Munawar held positions at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Qatar), Brown University (USA), UCL-Qatar (Qatar), the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has widely published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in heritage studies, archaeology, and cultural studies. He is currently working on his book monograph titled Rebuilding Syria: Cultural Heritage and Memory After Conflict, which is planned to be published by Edinburgh University Press. Munawar is also working on two edited volumes: one with Palgrave McMillan on the Politics of Post-Conflict Heritage Reconstruction, and the other with Routledge on Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict in the MENA region.

Munawar was recently awarded a prestigious grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through the 'NWO Talent Program – VENI scheme 2022' to conduct his research on 'Decolonial Futures: Heritage, Memory, and Narratives in the Making in MENA' at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands.