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Anne Lene Stein has been awarded the EISA Best Dissertation Award 2026 for her thesis, “Agonism against the Odds: Epistemic Disruptions and Bodies of Dissent in Palestine and Israel”. Congratulation, how does it feel to receive this award, and what does it mean to you personally and professionally?I am incredibly happy and honoured to receive the EISA Best Dissertation Award. Writing a PhD is such

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anne-lene-stein-wins-eisa-best-dissertation-award - 2026-10-07

A Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) seminar on 8 September marked the launch of Three Scandinavian Missionary Women and the Armenian Genocide, a new book edited by Svante Lundgren and Maria Småberg that sheds light on the humanitarian work of three Scandinavian women who assisted Armenians during one of the twentieth century's most devastating atrocities. In the  opening remarks, C

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-highlights-scandinavian-womens-humanitarian-efforts-during-armenian-genocide - 2026-10-07

More than 50 people attended the CMES Open House on 14 September to meet the Centre’s affiliated researchers and learn about twelve current research projects. The programme featured presentations, conversations at the researchers’ poster stands and information about CMES courses in Arabic. The day began with CMES Director Ronny Berndtsson introducing the Centre and its activities. The affiliated r

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-open-house-attracts-students - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an exceptionally dynamic area that has undergone great changes politically as well as economically during the latest decades. The region is likely to continue to display rapid and sudden developments

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-8-february-2020 - 2026-10-07

Interest in CMES Arabic language courses has reached a new high. This semester, the Centre received a record number of applications from Lund University students and staff seeking to develop their language skills and deepen their understanding of the Arabic-speaking world. The courses, which are exclusively available to Lund University students and staff, are designed for those interested in worki

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/record-number-applications-cmes-arabic-language-courses - 2026-10-07

Around 70 people gathered at Domkyrkoforum when journalist and author Joakim Medin visited the CMES to discuss press freedom and freedom of expression in the Middle East. Drawing on his recent experiences in Turkey and his new book Imprisoned by Erdoğan, Medin reflected on the risks facing journalists working under authoritarian rule. During the seminar, organised by Centre for Advanced Middle Eas

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joakim-medin-press-freedom-repression-and-hope-change-turkey - 2026-10-07

How does the growing market for investment migration reshape citizenship, belonging and the role of the state? These questions were at the centre of a recent CMES seminar, where researchers Sara Kalm, Leysan Storie and Markus Gunneflo presented their new MECW-funded research project, Elite Mobility: Investment Migration in the Middle East. The project examines investment migration programmes that

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-explores-investment-migration-middle-east - 2026-10-07

How is North Africa’s renewable energy transition reshaping local communities, landscapes, and power relations? Bringing together researchers from across disciplines and regions, an international workshop at Lund University explored the social, political, and environmental implications of large-scale renewable energy projects, with a particular focus on extractivism, environmental justice, and loc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/international-workshop-towards-research-agenda-expansion-renewable-energy-frontiers-and-local - 2026-10-07

CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi and his colleagues from engineering, natural sciences, and social sciences, has been recognised as one of the standout studies published by researchers in Sweden. Their paper "Unraveling the link between agricultural patterns and dust storm occurrence in Mesopotamia", has been selected for a special collection celebrating high-impact research published in 2025 by IO

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-dust-storm-earns-international-recognition - 2026-10-07

How does armed conflict reshape landscapes? In a new study, CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Purnendu Sardar (together with Milena Ayvazyan) examine how warfare, extractivism, and environmental degradation have transformed Kurdish-majority regions in Syria and Turkey. The open-access publication reveals how environmental destruction can become intertwined with strategies of territorial control, res

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/armed-conflict-extractivism-and-environmental-degradation-remote-sensing-and-discourse-analysis - 2026-10-07

CMES researchers Mo Hamza and Sinem Kavak have published a new article examining the relationship between social class and forced migrants’ onward mobility. Focusing on Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon, the study highlights how class-based resources and constraints shape migration aspirations and opportunities. Read the article here (External link).Article at Lund University Research Portal (

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/social-class-and-forced-migrants-secondaryonward-mobility-decision-making-syrians-turkey-and-lebanon - 2026-10-07

CMES researcher Sami Al-Daghistani has published a new article exploring the role of maqāsid (the higher objectives of Islamic law) in shaping ethical approaches to economic life. The study investigates how material and non-material values are negotiated within contemporary discussions of markets, morality, and the common good. Read the article at Brill website (External link)Article at Lund Unive

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/maqasid-and-market-ethical-reasoning-between-material-and-non-material-values - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An innovative project has received support from the Swedish Institute under its “support for cooperation with academics from Turkey” scheme. “Turkey Beyond Borders: Critical Voices, New Perspectives” aims to foster collaboration between academics in Sweden and scholars from Turkey whose academic freedoms are implicitl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seminar-and-vodcast-series-draws-attention-infringements-academic-freedom-turkey-and-provides-forum - 2026-10-07

New article by CMES researcher Orwa Ajjoub in The Conflict Archives - a platform created to showcase work focused on conflict, insurgency and politics across the globe including the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Central America. The website is a collection of news, articles, insights and analyses supported by in-depth analysis and research of contemporary conflict zones by several researcher

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/orwa-ajjoub-after-baghdadis-death-why-did-islamic-state-fighters-give-pledge-their-new-leader - 2026-10-07

New article by CMES Mohammed Almahfali & James Root in The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies - an independent think-tank that seeks to foster change through knowledge production with a focus on Yemen and the surrounding region. The Center’s publications and programs, offered in both Arabic and English, cover political, social, economic and security related developments, aiming to impact policy l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-irans-islamic-revolution-does-and-does-not-influence-houthi-rule-northern-yemen - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Having just marked two months since its launch, #rethinkingPopulism has already published 9 articles and an interactive map tracing the topography of research on populism and gender. Continuing to pursue the project’s aim to contribute to a vigorous and constructive, yet widely accessible debate for a non-academic and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-populism-published-cartoons - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maria Malmström (Lund) discussed her latest monograph The Streets are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt with Professor Omar Dewachi (from Rutgers). Professor Maria Malmström is Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, where she, in January 2017, started a collab

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-graduate-center-city-university-new-york-maria-f-malmstrom - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 18 March 2020, @ 15:00 CMES, Lund University, Finngatan 16 Please register here: maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se Speakers:Pınar Dinç, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University“Turkey's Unchanging Raison d'État? Narratives on Dersim 1938”Reyda Ergün, Faculty of Law, Kadir Has University,“Raison d’État and the Regimes

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-raison-detat-new-turkey-postponed - 2026-10-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated fellow, Joshka Wessels, talked about her book “Documenting Syria; Revolution, Filmmaking and Video Activism” recently published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury. Syria is now one of the most important countries in the world for the international documentary film industry. The most recent Syria documentary film

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/documenting-syria-revolution-filmmaking-and-video-activism-full-house-seminar - 2026-10-07

A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. It is a journey that is not over yet.   However, with another prestigious research grant from Formas she feels secure in Lund for the next three years.  “I would be able to begin research on anything at all in Turkey, however, if I were to present results th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/she-found-sanctuary-lund-about-cmes-pinar-dinc-and-her-research-and-life-journey - 2026-10-07