Dr. Zeina Al Azmeh

Biography

Zeina Al Azmeh is a Teaching Associate in Political Sociology at the University of Cambridge's Department of Sociology and a Fellow at Selwyn College. Her research focuses on political sociology, knowledge production, and memorialization, especially in the context of exile with a particular focus on the contemporary Middle East. She explores themes such as memorialization, migration, revolutions, and the role of intellectuals in contexts of forced displacement. Al Azmeh co-founded and serves as co-chair of the Syrian Research Academic Network (SARN), an organization that promotes collaboration and support for Syrian scholars and researchers in exile. She has authored the forthcoming book 'Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving' with Cambridge University Press, which is based on extensive fieldwork with exiled Syrian intellectuals. Her work has been published in leading journals and she has contributed to edited volumes on topics including intellectuals, cancel culture, and arts-based methods in higher education. Zeina earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge in 2021, focusing on exiled Syrian intellectuals since the revolution of 2011 and previously held leadership roles in higher education in Qatar. She has also lectured in music theory and published a textbook on diatonic harmony.

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