Damage in Gaza Strip Oct. 2023 (Photo: Wafa/Wikimedia Commons) The war in Gaza is testing alliances and shaking up politics, both globally and regionally. What does this mean for the West's relationship with the Middle East? How are inter-regional dynamics affected? And what is the impact of the war in Israel? Read an interview with Karin Aggestam, Political Scientist and Director of the Centre fo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/geopolitics-and-diplomacy-wake-gaza-war - 2025-09-13

Photo: Salim Alsabbagh Join us on 30 May for an evening with Samir Abu Eid at the Department of Political Science! Welcome to an evening with Samir Abu Eid, Honorary Doctor in Social Science at Lund University and Foreign Correspondent in the Middle East for Swedish Public Service Television (SVT).The event is chaired by Karin Aggestam, CMES DIrector and Professor of Political Science.The event is

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-seminar-samir-abu-eid-inside-israeli-palestinian-conflict - 2025-09-13

Watch an interview with CMES Director Karin Aggestam In this episode of the "Distinguished Diplomatic Interviews" series, the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy hosts Dr Karin Aggestam, Professor of Political Science. She is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and Scientific Coordinator of the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). This

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/protracted-conflict-negotiation-and-water-cooperation-middle-east - 2025-09-13

CMES researcher Heba Taha has published a chapter about Palestinians in Israeli international aid imaginaries. The chapter, "Dislocating Development: Palestinians in Israeli International Aid Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1960s", was published in the edited volume Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (IB Tauris 2024), edited by

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CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has authored an article in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 11. The article "Assyrians and Kurds in Sweden - A Strained Relation" was published in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 11.Read more about the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies Svante Lundgren

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Source: Shahi et al. 2024 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored an article published in the journal Chemosphere. The article, "Transport and retention of functionalized graphene oxide nanoparticles in saturated/unsaturated porous media: Effects of flow velocity, ionic strength and initial particle concentration", was authored by Mahsa Shahi (Lund University), Mohammad Reza Alavi Moghadda

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nanoparticle-infection-soils-and-groundwater - 2025-09-13

CMES researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article published in the journal Diversity. The article "Climate-Change-Driven Shifts in Aegilops tauschii Species Distribution: Implications for Food Security and Ecological Conservation" was co-authored by Shirin Mahmoodi (Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center), Mohammad Jaffar Aghaei (National Plant Gene Bank of Iran), K

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-change-and-plant-diversity-iran - 2025-09-13

CMES researcher Heba Taha has co-authored an article in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. The article, "The Atomic Future: Technology, Labor and World Peace in the Thought of ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath", was co-authored by Heba Taha and Pelle Valentin Olsen. AbstractIn 1946, one year after the atomic bombings of Japan, Palestinian thinker ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath (1908–1967) published a bo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/atomic-future-arab-world - 2025-09-13

Figure from Mousavi et al. 2024 CMES researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article published in the Journal of Water and Climate Change. The article "Assessing the impact of global carbon dioxide changes on atmospheric fluctuations in Iran through satellite data analysis" was co-authored by Seyed-Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shahid Beheshti University

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-iran - 2025-09-13

CMES Director Karin Aggestam briefs the committee members The Foreign Affairs Committee from the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) visited Lund University on May 27. CMES Director Karin Aggestam was invited to give a presentation about CMES and Middle East research at Lund University. The committee was also briefed on several other issues at Lund University, ranging from cooperation with Ukraine to i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/swedish-foreign-affairs-committee-visits-lund-university - 2025-09-13

Photo: Lotta Lundmark CMES Director Karin Aggestam participated in a podcast hosted by Folk och Försvar. AbstractThe war that broke out in Gaza following the Hamas attack on October 7 and Israel's response has once again highlighted the endurance of wars and heightened regional tensions in the Middle East.  At the same time, there are ongoing wars and conflicts in Syria and Yemen, and conflict lin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/prospect-peace-middle-east-0 - 2025-09-13

The Swedish Middle East correspondent Samir Abu Eid is being awarded his honorary doctorate at Lund University today. Full house yesterday when Middle East correspondent Samir Abu Eid, Swedish Television, held a CMES public lecture about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has also been interviewed about his excitement over receiving an honorary doctorate at Lund University and how he looks forwa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/samir-abu-eid-honorary-doctor-lund-university - 2025-09-13

Photos: Linda Eitrem Holmgren On 31 May, CMES hosted an end-of-semester lunch for our students, interns and staff. The participants of the Israel-Palestine reading course, our various Arabic language classes and our research interns were given certificates for their work this semester. Together with CMES staff, they enjoyed some delicious Levantine cuisine in the beautiful CMES garden at Finngatan

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The city of Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank (Photo: Nour Tayeh/Unsplash) CMES is happy to announce the new MECW project for 2024-2027 which will focus on civil society actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territories This project explores the complex history of Swedish humanitarian initiatives in the occupied Palestinian territories through the concept of frictional humanitarian homebuilding. Add

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-frictional-homebuilding-swedish-civil-society-actors-occupied-palestinian - 2025-09-13

CMES researcher Mattias Kärrholm has authored an article published in the journal Political Geography. The article, "Temporality, nationalism and the territorialisation of public space - Commemorational presences in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv", was published online on 26 May 2024.The article is published as part of the MECW project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities - Exploring Politics of Memory, Space, an

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/commemorational-presences-jerusalem-and-tel-aviv - 2025-09-13

Photo: Lina Eklund Apply by 7 June 2024! A 4-year fully funded PhD position is open in CMES researcher Lina Eklund's group on climate risk and adaptation in the Middle East. The research is focused on GIS, remote sensing and interdisciplinary approaches. Climate adaptation is fundamental for reducing vulnerability to climate change impacts, however the most recent Climate Report (IPCC AR6) found t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-doctoral-student-climate-risk-and-adaptation-middle-east - 2025-09-13

CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has authored an article published in Chronos Revue d’Histoire de l’Université de Balamand. AbstractMore than 150 years after the birth of modern Assyrian nationalism, it is safe to say that it has failed. It was not able to inspire and mobilize most of the Assyrian people and did not achieve its goals. According to the established narrative, the reasons were the Ass

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rise-and-fall-assyrian-nationalism - 2025-09-13

AI generated image This Regional Outlook provides insight into an emerging environmental hazard: dust storms in the Middle East, one of the driest regions in the world. It also sheds light on the typical drivers and new technologies that can help investigate this phenomenon. Some sustainable mitigation measures are also discussed. Significant changes in recent years, such as population growth and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-dust-storms-middle-east-insights-satellite-data-and-ai - 2025-09-13

Photo: Ahmed Akacha/Pexels The course runs between 4 December 2024 and 15 January 2025 and isopen for PhD students in Sweden and beyond. Application deadline: 4 November 2024 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi is coordinating a course for PhD students offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences as an interdisciplinary single–subject course next academic year.  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Environm

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/phd-course-environment-and-sustainable-development-mena - 2025-09-13

Read the new CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars.Read the NewsletterSubscribe to the

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