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The second edition of Syria Docdays will take place on 7 and 8 September at Panora Folkets bio in Malmö. CMES affiliated researcher, Joshka Wessels from Malmö University, will give a book talk about her new book "Documenting Syria: filmmaking, video activism and revolution" at Filmcentrum Syd.2019-08-28
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-docdays-malmo-book-talk-joshka-wessels - 2025-10-29
New article by CMES affiliated researchers Orwa Ajjoub and James Root. Salafi-Jihadis and white supremacists see the world in a way reminiscent of Samuel Huntington’s 1996 “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, which posited that in the post-Cold War era, world conflicts would emerge between “civilizations” rather than between nation-states and ideologies. While this has not yet become the dominant narr
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/through-looking-glass-clash-civilizations-narrative-extremist-worldviews - 2025-10-29
Would you like to examine the impact the September 11 terrorist attack has had on religious practice and on interpretations of religious records in Judaism, Christianity and Islam? And also participate in a study trip to Istanbul and Jerusalem? Vill du undersöka den inverkan som terrorattentatet den 11 september har haft på religiös praxis och på tolkningar av religiösa urkunder inom judendom, kri
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/religion-heritage-and-generation-conceptualizing-religion-after-911 - 2025-10-29
This analysis examines the foreign policy features and domestic implications of British policy towards Iran between 1974 and 1976. Starting with the assumption that economic interests, as well as Cold War imperatives, shaped British policy towards Iran into one where human rights had no space, the conduct of Britain’s foreign policy apparatus towards the Shah vis à vis the disturbing reporting of
CMES was well represented at the conference. One of the panels was "The Politics of Islam in the Middle East and Europe" and was presented by Demian Voksi, James Root and Orwa Ajjoub. It was moderated by Rola El-Husseini. The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (NSMES) is an independent and non-profit association for scholars in the Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Ic
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nordic-society-middle-eastern-studies-nsmes-conference-helsinki - 2025-10-29
In August 2019, the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) will be hosting the conference in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The conference is open for participants beyond the Nordic countries. Several researchers from CMES will be presenting their work at the conference. In August 2019, the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/break-ing-and-creating-boundaries-middle-east-nsmes2019helsinki - 2025-10-29
Under det fullsatta seminariet ”Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten – vad händer nu?” avhandlades på onsdagen allt från Turkiet till Egypten och Algeriet i ett soligt Almedalen. Ämnet var minst sagt omfattande, men de tre experterna i panelen gjorde sitt bästa för att guida publiken genom regionens utveckling och många konflikter. Läs mer här i Amnesty Press 2019-07-11
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/almedalen-2019-de-manga-konflikterna-i-mellanostern-amnesty-press - 2025-10-29
Heavy rainfall and flooding in late March and early April 2019 affected millions of people in Iran, caused deaths, displacement and catastrophic damage to the infrastructure. This is happening while the country has long suffered from frequent droughts and adaptive management practices are not in place to deal with such fluctuations.Read more in this guest piece in Utvecklingsmagasinet by CMES Hasa
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/disastrous-floods-after-prolonged-droughts-have-challenged-iran - 2025-10-29
CMES is arranging three seminars on the Middle East next week in Almedalsveckan in Gotland. Middle East beyond the Islamic state. What happens now? Swedish municipalities after IS - to work with returnees and prevent new travelers to terrorist groups. Culture, religion, honor and clan. How do we understand the Middle East? Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten. Vad händer nu? 3/7 2019 10:00 - 1
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-final-programme - 2025-10-29
A new cohort of students have graduated with a Master's degree in ME studies and wrote master's theses on very diverse topics (Algeria, Afghanistan, Jordan and migration from the ME to Europe). First row left to right:Zane LiepenlauskaLinda el-NaggarTaha Haj AhmadDalia Abdelhady (teacher)Emma Nordvall Back row left to right:Toby BruceJia LiuDavid Norcross Isobel CoweyPernilla Nilsson2019-06-25
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/me-master-students-graduated - 2025-10-29
We wish you all a warm and relaxing summer. However, in only a few weeks from now the important Almedalen week starts. Lund University is as always well represented and many panels have connections to the Middle East and the dynamics of this region. As well, keep your eyes and ears open for coming news on the planned public seminars that we are arranging on MENA related research during the autumn
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-2-summer-edition - 2025-10-29
CMES guest researcher Defne Kadıoğlu Polat just published a chapter in the book "German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics". "In recent years, dialogue between Germany and Turkey has increasingly become subject to political, academic and public debates. The evolution of the bilateral relations between both countries has bee
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/creatively-displaced-impact-neoliberal-urban-policies-immigrants-turkey-berlin - 2025-10-29
Svante Lundgren is a researcher at CMES. Two of his popular science books have recently been published in translation. Assyrierna - från Nineve till Södertälje (2014) have been published in Dutch: De Assyriërs - van Nineveh naar Enschede (AJN Press). It has previously appeared in German (2015) and English (2016) translation.Assyrierna femtio år i Sverige (2017) has been published in English: The A
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/books-assyrians-svante-lundgren-translated - 2025-10-29
Pinar Dinc, researcher from from CMES, tomorrow holds a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Being a mountainous region with numerous bodies of water, valleys, and grottos, Dersim or Tunceli was a shelter for non-dominant groups (non-Sunni and non-Turkish) for centuries. Both the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic conducted numerous military operations in the region, of whic
Next week CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour is speaking at an event that marks the launch of policy papers by the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) on an engendered constitution, the return of displaced Syrians and reconstruction. The papers relied on the findings of a series of national consultations conducted with eight women groups in the regime-controlled areas, in northern Syr
From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, what has changed? CMES Researcher Orwa Ajjoub has written an article examining the history of one of the most significant opposition groups in the Syrian conflict, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). In it, he traces the group through four main phases: during the first phase, which lasted between January 2012 and April 2013, the group emerged under the name
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-history-hts - 2025-10-29
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a post-doc that will be part of the research area regarding groundwater as a natural resource in the arid Middle East and how the use of satellite data and advanced machine-learning algorithms can be used to solve complex water supply problems. The groundwater is rapidly dwindling as a natural resource in the Middle East. At the same time popula
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-10-29
Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern. Its immense strategic importance and strong role in the world economy, together with an unprecedented population increase, contain al
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2025-10-29
CMES, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a new platform called ip-ACIRR* are working to promote rights for people with disabilities in contexts of armed conflicts and for inclusive post-conflict society building. When CMES researcher Helen Avery was in Sulaimaniya in Kurdistan, she visited the Rozh Society to discuss possible cooperation on these issues. The Ro
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cooperation-initiative-around-people-disabilities-conflict-areas - 2025-10-29
Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, region
