Zeina Al-Azmeh
Political sociologist and research fellow in political sociology at the University of Cambridge; author of Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving (Cambridge UP, 2026), focusing on exile, intellectual life, and the relationship between knowledge and political struggle.
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May 9, 2026 • 1h 3min
Zeina Al-Azmeh, "Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Zeina Al-Azmeh, a political sociologist at Cambridge, studies Syrian intellectuals forced into exile. She explores life in Paris and Berlin, the moral currency of persecution, negotiating Western expectations, the dual gaze toward Europe, and the shift from intellectual leadership to radical embeddedness with its political consequences.
May 9, 2026 • 1h 3min
Zeina Al-Azmeh, "Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Zeina Al-Azmeh, a political sociologist at Cambridge who studies exile and intellectual life, joins to discuss Syrian intellectuals displaced after 2011. She contrasts Paris and Berlin contexts. Short takes cover methodological dilemmas of using participants' writing, divisions within the exile field, persecution capital, Orientalist pressures, the dual gaze, trauma work, and possibilities after Assad's fall.
May 9, 2026 • 1h 3min
Zeina Al-Azmeh, "Syrian Intellectuals in Exile: The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Zeina Al-Azmeh, a political sociologist at Cambridge who studies exile and intellectual life, discusses Syrian thinkers uprooted after 2011. She explores their lives in Paris and Berlin. Short takes cover the methodological challenge of using interlocutors' writings, the idea of persecution capital, the double gaze toward the West, radical embeddedness, trauma work, and what regime change means for intellectual legitimacy.
