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This week on the brand new blog CMES researchers Pinar Dinc, Orwa Ajjoub and Spyros A. Sofos contribute texts that attempt to shed light on the questions arising from the increased volatility in the region. Dinc and Sofos provide their takes on the implications of the US military withdrawal from Northern and Northeastern Syria in Syria, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also k

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-blog - 2026-08-13

USA:s tillbakaträdande från de kurdiska områdena i norra Syrien och Turkiets invasion där gör kurderna, araberna, turkmenerna, assyrierna, armenierna och andra som bor i regionen väldigt sårbara. Det menar Turkietexperten Pinar Dinc, på Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds universitet.   Read the full article here 2019-10-11

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/svart-lage-i-rojava-efter-turkiets-attack-cmes-pinar-dinc-rojava-situation-swedish - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A talk "Personality cults in Modern Turkey: narratives, discourses and authoritarian politics", two films: "Seven Doors" (also on Turkey) and "No way to freedom: from Western Sahara to Gaza" plus the Conversation Series: Passion and politics. These are some of the events, hosted by CMES, that will take place during th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2026-08-13

Research in suspicious fields can be transformative in both amplifying and destructive ways. "Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay, I work to understand my embodied experience in the field in a broader perspective by exploring how suspicio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/infused-suspicion-transformation-anthropologist-body-new-article-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Read the newsletter hereSubscribe here2019-09-12

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-3-september-2019 - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady recently published a book chapter on “Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts.” inThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, edited by Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Emmanuel Ness, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Handbook of Migration Crises run

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/framing-syrian-refugee-divergent-discourses-three-national-contexts - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dalia Abdelhady has presented a paper on “Perception of Educational Inequality among the Children of Immigrants in Three Systems” (with Amy Lutz from Syracuse University) at the European Sociological Association meeting in Manchester, UK, August 20-23, 2019. She also presented a paper on “Perception of Social Mobility

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour has just published a chapter in the report "Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? The chapter is published 09/09/2019 by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in their report, which is found here: REBUILDING SYRIA The Middle East’s Next Powe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Maria F Malmström is holding a book talk at University of Oxford. About the book: "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of these even

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issues central for understanding the ways in whi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice-routledge-research-race - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. What can cognitive semiotics bring to visual semiotics, and vice-versa? Visual semiotics has, most of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-2011-2013-comparison-between-al-jazeera-and-al-manar-channels - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". The politics of place naming in Turkey have historically been dense and controversial. Naming and/or renaming places are political acts that affect dai

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dersim-anatolian-high-school-ataturk-neighborhood-tunceli-naming-renaming-and-contingent-openings - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Josepha Wessels will be presenting her work at the conference: "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring". The conference is hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe, Department of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/artistic-expression-regime-critical-activism-and-social-networks-syrians-denmark-and-sweden - 2026-08-13

The workshop is called: Unpacking ‘the Opposition’ in undemocratic regimes: The Role, Transformation and Challenges of the Oppositional Actors in Turkey and beyond The purpose of this workshop is to initiate a debate on the opposition in Turkey and contribute to the theorization of the role, transformation, mobilization strategies and different forms of the opposition in undemocratic regimes.  The

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-pinar-dinc-presenting-fake-news-understanding-conflict-and-forest-fire-nexus-through-media - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Message from the director: New CMES board in place  While CMES 2.0 is still in the making some important steps have been taken in the last few weeks. We are pleased to announce that a new interdisciplinary board has been formed.  Four faculties are represented from Lund University, which include dean and prof Christof

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-15 - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As part of the Climate Stress in Syria-research project, there was a closed interactive online workshop on October 14th to discuss the nexus around drought, vulnerability and conflict. This post describes the workshop that was held online on October 14th, 2020, as the first workshop in the Climate Stress Syria project

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/exploring-broader-field-environmental-dimensions-conflict-middle-east-region-and-beyond - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ten non-Armenians from ten European countries write about their interest in and experiences of Armenia. In moving and, at times, funny essays they depict dramatic events, lasting friendships, political struggles. We hear about lavash and brandy, genocide and revival, Yerevan and small God-forgotten villages in Hayasta

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-svante-lundgren-one-editors-new-book-armenia-mon-amour-ten-europeans-speak - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES Spyros Sofos was awarded a PhD in Regional and Cross-cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen after the examination of his thesis entitled “The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy” on Monday 7 December. This thesis is intended to make a contribution to ongoing efforts to enhance our un

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-phd-thesis-meanings-people-turkish-politics-genealogy - 2026-08-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Local weather often is not what news reports for cities and counties. As transient, local, and intense as a cloudburst, rainfall can be highly variable, impractical to measure for usual rain-gauge networks. Frequent extreme events with climate change call for fundamental knowledge developments on rainfall. With the ne

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-hasan-hosseini-has-got-pre-seed-funding-2021-lu-innovation - 2026-08-13