Blame towards the international community in relation to the Syrian War complicated already conflicted attitudes among exiled Syrian intellectuals in Europe towards their host societies where inner tensions between appreciation and condemnation intensified. Energised by a recaptured faith in \u2018the people\u2019 after the 2011 uprising, disillusionment with the West\u2019s moral superiority, and a growing disdain towards an \u2018unjust unsustainable world order\u2019, exiled Syrian intellectuals were deconstructing a historical sense of \u2018cultural insult\u2019 and recapturing self-narratives of empowerment, resilience, epistemic authority, and cultural self-respect in their narration of their collective trauma. This recaptured voice and sense of agency appears to be subverting a previous ethos of powerlessness, subordination, and despair. The chapter argues that a paradigm shift is taking place in the \u2018trauma work\u2019 of exiled Syrian intellectuals, a change in the direction of focus from a politics of being perceived to a politics of perceiving. This new paradigm, the chapter argues, repositions the margin, through its very silencing and traumatic essence, at the centre of a new world view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A new chapter by Zeina Al-Azmeh Exilic Narrations of Syria’s Trauma: Blame towards the international community in relation to the Syrian War complicated already conflicted attitudes among exiled Syrian intellectuals in Europe towards their host societies where inner tensions between appreciation and condemnation intensified. Energised by a recaptured faith in \u2018the people\u2019 after the 2011…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publications"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image001.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.ramna.info\/sarnuk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}