Zeina Al Azmeh is a Centenary Research Fellowship at Selwyn College,
University of Cambridge. She is also a research associate with Cambridge
University’s Centre for Governance and Human Rights and a project
coordinator for the research project Higher Education, States of Precarity
and Conflict in the 'Global North' and 'Global South' at the Faculty of
Education, University of Cambridge.
Zeina holds master’s degrees in social and cultural theory and in music
composition as well as a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge
examining the role of exiled Syrian intellectuals in civil resistance. Her
work sits at the intersection of the political sociology of knowledge, memory
studies and migration studies. More specifically, she studies the cultural
sociologies of knowledge production in exile and their impact upon political
subjectivity with a focus on revolutions and counterrevolutions in the Middle
East.