Zeina Al Azmeh

Zeina’s teaching experience extends over 20 years gained in a variety of diverse environments, in the global north and south.  She was a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s department of sociology in 2022/23 where she taught ‘Theories of Modernity’ as part of the department’s Introduction to Sociology. Over the past 7 years, she has also supervised undergraduate courses at the Cambridge's Department of Sociology. Her teaching aims to expand on the theoretical cannon to include previously marginalised scholarship where relevant to enrich students' learning and classroom discussion.  In 2016 and 2017, she taught an undergraduate course in the medical humanities titled Medicine and the Arts engaging 2 cohorts of medical students at Qatar University using problem-based learning (PBL) and conducted a pedagogical study published as a chapter on the usefulness of arts-based methods in professional education (Palgrave, 2017).  In her early career and for 3 years, she was a lecturer in music theory at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus, Syria.