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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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

What happens when the desert becomes a laboratory for the city of the future? A new MECW research project will critically examine how ambitious smart-city visions are imagined, promoted and translated into urban development across the Gulf region. At a CMES seminar, researchers Lorena Melgaço, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Sandra Kopljar introduced Utopian Desert: Investigating Smart Cities in the Gu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-examines-promises-and-tensions-gulf-smart-cities - 2026-10-17

At a CMES seminar on 8 October, Fredrik Meiton of the Swedish Institute for Foreign Affairs (UI) presented a tentative analysis of an emerging regional order in the Middle East, shaped less by ideology than by economic competition, security interests and control over strategic infrastructure. In the seminar, The New Middle East: Bloc Politics and Geoeconomics, Meiton argued that the region is incr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-regional-blocs-reshape-power-politics-middle-east - 2026-10-17

CMES researcher Sami Al Daghistani has published a chapter in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies Read the publication: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation TheologiesAbout the author: Sami Al Daghistani“This chapter argues that Islamic liberation theology (ILT) has rarely been theorized in sustained conversation with the modern Islamic economic project, des

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/power-poverty-and-hereafter-islamic-liberation-theology-and-economics - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

CMES will offer several part-time internships for Lund University students during the autumn of 2026. Are you a Lund University student with an interest in the Middle East region? The Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies (CMES) offers internships in four projects during 26 October - 31 December. Application deadline is 25 October, 2026.Who We AreCMES supports, coordinates and expands interdisci

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/come-work-us-student-internships-cmes-autumn-2026 - 2026-10-17

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. Read CMES Newsletter here.Subscribe to the CMES-newsletter.Message from the DirectorIt has been a real pleasure to see CMES coming to alive again after the summer. The autumn semester has started with a wonderful sense of energy, curiosity, and collegiality. I have particula

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-62 - 2026-10-17

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi joined Studentafton in Lund for a conversation about her lifelong fight for human rights, democracy and women’s rights in Iran. The event was organised in collaboration with We Have A Dream and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Ebadi was joined on stage by moderator Lisa Strömbom, Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund Universi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/shirin-ebadi-discusses-human-rights-and-democracy-iran-studentafton - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17

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 - 2026-10-17