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CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has written a review of a book about the armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. The reviewed book is called Varje dag dör jag långsamt. En reportagebok inifrån Nagorno-Karabach (English translation: Every day I die slowly. Reporting from Inside Nagorno-Karabakh) and was written by Rasmus Canbäck (2023, SILC Förlag). Svante's review was published in Svenska Dagbladet on

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-review-voices-nagorno-karabakh - 2025-09-29

On 19 April, Olof Palme Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor participated in a seminar on academic freedom and freedom of expression together with Noam Chomsky. The event, organised by the Middle East Study Centre (MESC) at Hull University, was chaired by Glenn Burgess and CMES visiting professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor acted as discussant. Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive sci

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-and-freedom-expression - 2025-09-29

CMES funds 1-2 new workshop per year and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from different disciplines within Lund University. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops and higher public research seminars with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-open-cmes-call-workshop-proposals - 2025-09-29

The Middle East and North African region lose about $13 billion a year because of increasing sand and dust storms. By combining learnings from artificial intelligence and 3000-year-old sustainable methods, researchers might be on the way to finding out how to mitigate the damages. Sand and dust storms cause damage to crops, human and animal health, buildings and infrastructure, and force shutdowns

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sand-and-dust-storm-research-finds-answers-ai-and-ancient-knowledge - 2025-09-29

CMES provides travel grants for conducting field work in the Middle East and conference/workshop participation with paper presentations focused on Middle East research. Applications are open to employees at Lund University. Grant period: autumn 2023. Application deadline: 31 May 2023 For more information and instructions please read the call: Call CMES travel grant 2023.pdf

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-open-cmes-call-travel-grants - 2025-09-29

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 latest issue of the CMES Newslette

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-35 - 2025-09-29

On March 16, CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean participated in an online event about the humanitarian impact of Lebanon's deepening crises. The event was hosted by the Arab Center Washington DC. Rola spoke about the country’s religious personal status laws and its nationality law, as well as domestic violence and child marriage. On domestic violence in Lebanon, El-Husseini said, “After the fin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/event-recording-women-lebanon - 2025-09-29

CMES affiliated researcher Sarah Anne Rennick has written a review of a book about youth activists in Egypt's 2011 revolution. The reviewed book is called Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution, written by Rusha Latif (2022, American University in Cairo Press). Sarah's review was published in The Middle East Journal. The book explores the trajectories of Egyptian youth activists during

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-review-egypts-leaderless-revolution - 2025-09-29

As a PhD student in this project you will be working in a dynamic and interdiscplinary research environment with links to two strategic research areas: The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW) and Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate (BECC). Application deadline: 26 May 2023. Doctoral student at Lund University's Department of Physical Geograhy and Ecosystem Science (INES).  S

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-vacancy-lu-doctoral-student-pyrogeography-middle-east - 2025-09-29

CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean has authored an article published by the Arab Center Washington DC. The problems facing women in Lebanon today have been further complicated by the financial, economic, and social crises that have been affecting the country since 2019. It is therefore not surprising that women were on the frontlines of the so-called Tishreen (October) Revolution in 2019, becau

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/harrowing-state-womens-rights-lebanon - 2025-09-29

CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has co-authored the article "From resolution to resecuritization: populist communication of the AKP’s Kurdish peace process in Turkey" together with Ozge Ozduzen (University of Sheffield) published in the journal New Perspectives on Turkey. This article contributes to the existing literature on the populist online communication of governments. We look at the role of the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/erdogan-twitter-and-kurdish-peace-process - 2025-09-29

CMES PhD researcher Joel W. Abdelmoez recently returned from fieldwork in Tunisia. Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usual

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-w-abdelmoez-fieldwork-tunisia - 2025-09-29

CMES Olof Palme Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor has authored "Academic freedom and the anti-Israeli BDS movement" published on the ECPR's Political Science Blog, the Loop. Raphael Cohen-Almagor looks at the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign to boycott Israeli academics and ban Israel tout court. He argues that there is no justification for any academic organisation to do this. Any such

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-and-bds-movement - 2025-09-29

On March 21, CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean participated in an event organised by The Arab Center for Research and Political Studies of Paris (CAREP Paris). Rola participated in a panel on feminism and receptions of knowledge in the Arab world and spoke about how authoritarian regimes in the Arab world instrumentalize gender. You can watch a recording of the panel (in French) here. Rola El-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/event-recording-gender-arab-authoritarian-regimes - 2025-09-29

CMES affiliated researcher Sarah Anne Rennick has participated in a podcast to speak about her research on youth in conflict in the Middle East. The podcast episode is part of the Online Indian Journal of Peace & Conflict Resolution (OIJPCR) Podcast Series, which is focused on peace and conflict resolution, positively contributing toward the creation of a peaceful society.  In the episode, Sarah d

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/podcast-youth-trajectories-middle-east-conflict - 2025-09-29

CMES will participate in Almedalen with two topical panels on climate change in the Middle East and Israel's democratic backsliding. Welcome to join us on 29 June! The End of Liberal Democracy in Israel? 29 June 2023, 10:00 to 10:45, Hästgatan 13, Visby Please note that this seminar will be held in Swedish. Israel is facing its worst internal political crisis in decades after its newly installed f

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-2023 - 2025-09-29

CMES is looking to employ an ambitious scholar in Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies for a tenure track position. Last day to apply: 17 August 2023 General Information Last application date: 17 August, 2023 11:59 PM CEST Type of employment: Temporary position Contract type: Full time Reference number: PA2023/1199 Link to the job listing in English Link to the job listing in Swedish Work Du

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-position-tenure-track-position-islamic-studies - 2025-09-29

Welcome to a symposium at CMES on Turkish nationalism on 1 June! Please register to attend in-person or online. Warmly welcome to a mini-symposium arranged within the MECW project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion in Middle Eastern Nationalisms, with three timely talks on Turkish nationalism and Republican imaginaries: Biray Kollouglu, Bogaziçi Univers

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/symposium-framing-turkish-memory - 2025-09-29

On 9-10 May, CMES organized a workshop titled “Israel at the Crossroads: Democratic Backsliding and Elusive Peace” with international scholars to discuss the ongoing mass protests and democratic upheaval in Israel. The workshop explored a broad set of themes, such as the tension between state identity and democracy, “unthinkable” peace, and the regional repercussions of the recent political turmoi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-israels-democratic-backsliding-and-elusive-peace - 2025-09-29

The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies has published a call for submission for its MA thesis award. Application deadline: 15 September 2023 The call is open for students who are based at a Nordic university (in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Denmark) and have submitted their MA thesis between 16 August 2022 and 15 August 2023. The thesis must be written in English, Norwegian, Swedish o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/master-thesis-award-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-09-29