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Read the May-June CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publicat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-52 - 2025-09-23

This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:2) by Lisa Strömbom focuses on the global responses to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In February 2025, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into force, briefly easing the intense humanitarian crisis in Gaza after months of devastating conflict. The truce was structured in three phases. The first stage was implemented and included the ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-global-responses-escalating-humanitarian-crisis-gaza - 2025-09-23

Two CMES Yearbooks (2024 and 2021-2023 respectively), are now available to read and download. The CMES Yearbooks summarize the Centre's activities during a year or a selected period, including chapters covering:Research projectsResearch seminarsPublic lectures and eventsPolicy-dialogues, workshops, and conferencesCMES Regional OutlookTeaching and Arabic studies at CMESCMES in media and on digital

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-available-cmes-yearbooks-2021-2023-and-2024 - 2025-09-23

Welcome to CMES on 5th September to meet our staff and learn more about our research, activities and Arabic language courses! Enjoy some Arabic sweets, mingle with our staff, and learn more about our Arabic language courses. CMES offers several Arabic language courses during the fall of 2025, exclusively for Lund University students and staff interested in working and conducting research in Arabic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/welcome-open-house-cmes-0 - 2025-09-23

CMES researcher Maria Småberg has recently published an article in Globalbar Magazin together with Johan Schar associate Senior fellow at SIPRI. From aid shipments in the 1960s to a unique environmental project today – Swedish saucepans tell an unexpected story of sustainability and resilience.When Sweden sent saucepans to refugees in Beit Awa in 1967, few could have imagined they would still be i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/methods-recycling-gain-support-among-israeli-and-palestinian-communities - 2025-09-23

CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has recently published an article in the Conversation. Published: July 14.The historic disarmament ceremony on July 11 where members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) laid down their arms marked a pivotal moment in a decades-long conflict in Turkey. The ceremony was described by many who attended as a profoundly symbolic and emotional day that may signal the beginnin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-does-pkks-disarmament-affect-turkey-syria-and-iraq - 2025-09-23

CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has recently published an research article an The international journal of human rights. Ecological degradation not only affects local and global environments but also threatens the cultural survival of affected societies, exemplifying the phenomenon known as the genocide–ecocide nexus. This article presents the first comparative case study of olive tree destruction in o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/roots-destruction-exploring-genocide-ecocide-nexus-through-destruction-olive-trees-occupied - 2025-09-23

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. After a well-deserved summer break, the CMES team gathered for a two-day kick-off at the beautiful Åhus Seaside to strategise and coordinate for the upcoming academic year. The autumn program for the CMES seminar series is already in place, offering a wide range of exciting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-0 - 2025-09-23

CMES researcher Anne Lene Stein has recently published an research article in Babylon – Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. An agonistic approach to ethnography illuminates the complexities of researching in Palestine, where violent Israeli border regimes create pro- found socio-political divides. This framework highlights the methodological challenges and the transformative potential of ethn

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonism-and-ethnography-palestine - 2025-09-23

New article from CMES. Article written by Mahmoud A. Abd El-Basir, Yasser Hamed, Tarek Selim, Ronny Berndtsson, Ahmed M. Helmi.Read the full article here: Link to external website.Abstract:Arid mountainous regions are vulnerable to extreme hydrological events such as floodsand droughts. Providing accurate and continuous rainfall records with no gaps is crucialfor effective flood mitigation and wat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/developing-rainfall-spatial-distribution-using-geostatistical-gap-filled-terrestrial-gauge-records - 2025-09-23

CMES director Karin Aggestam has recently published an article in Forskning och Framsteg. She presents the article at a public event on justice at Playhouse Theatre, Stockholm, 6 October, 7pmRead the article (in Swedish) here: https://fof.se/artikel/ar-en-rattvis-fred-mellan-israel-och-palestina-mojlig/Read more about the public event: https://www.biljettkiosken.se/event/251006-fof-en_kvall_om_rat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/prospect-just-peace-israel-palestine-0 - 2025-09-23

CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund have published a new policy brief: From Conflict to Peace: The PKK’s Disarmament and the Green Potential of Peace in the Middle East. The PKK’s decision to disarm in 2025 presents a historic opportunity to transform peacebuilding in the Middle East. Beyond ending decades of armed conflict, this moment allows for addressing the deep ecological damage left

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/conflict-peace-pkks-disarmament-and-green-potential-peace-middle-east - 2025-09-23

The ECO-Syria research team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, convened its second and final workshop on 15–16 September 2025 at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies in Lund. Titled “ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict–Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation”, the event formed part of the ECO-Syria research project funded by t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/eco-syria-workshop-explores-environmental-politics-and-civil-society-post-conflict-syria - 2025-09-23

Yemen is home to religious and sectarian minorities who represent about 0.5% of the total population. In addition to Muslims, there is a minority of Jews, who’s presence has drastically shrunk over the years due to the multiple violations and displacement they were subjected to. Yemen also has a Bahai minority, who are currently estimated to number around 2,000 individuals. They also have been sub

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-minorities-yemen-reality-and-challenges - 2025-09-23

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University. Words from the director: The covid-19 will transform the ways we work and socialize in a manner we can still not oversee. Already now most research and higher teaching are done by distance mode. Even so, many of the planned research activities and meetings during the spring have had to be cancelled or postponed. Also, the Middle East is preparing

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-9-march-2020 - 2025-09-23

CyberOrient welcomes Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University in Sweden as a new Managing Editor along with Vit Sisler at Charles University. An expanded CyberOrient, an official open-access journal of the American Anthropological Association, is now up and ready for surfing. The renewed website, cyberorient.net, now has archived all past articles in PDF. CyberOrient is devoted to research on the impact

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-anders-ackfeldt-new-editor-journal-cyberorient - 2025-09-23

In January-February 2020, three researchers affiliated with CMES travelled to Khartoum, Sudan for the official kick-off seminar and workshop of a 3-year project that is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), FORMAS and SIDA and entitled: "Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS): An Interdisciplinary Spatial and Temporal Study of Social Cohesion and Resilience to Tackle the Consequences of Climate an

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-affiliated-researchers-launch-climate-research-project-sudan - 2025-09-23

This book analyses the tensions that emerge within strong welfare states when faced with large migration flows. It also interrogates the phenomenon of the 2015 'refugee crisis' and its foreplay and aftermath in the context of Northern Europe and challenges the notion of crisis as a feature of contemporary realities. "With an eye to the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled populations,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-refugees-and-violence-welfare-bureaucracies-northern-europe-edited-cmes-dalia-abdelhady-and - 2025-09-23

The rise of sectarianism in the Middle East and North Africa after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq has led to a new conceptual category – arguably as political as it is religious – which Rola El-Husseini has previously termed the ‘new Shi’a’. In this formulation, groups not traditionally associated with Twelver Shiism, such as the ‘Alawis of Syria or the Zaydis of Yemen, were suddenly deemed by jou

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/political-exigency-or-religious-affinity-sectarianism-contemporary-arab-world-new-article-cmes-rola - 2025-09-23

This article compares the discourses of building nations and national identities fostered in the content of school textbooks in the Republic of Turkey—a modern, territorial nation‐state—and the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria (hereafter Rojava)—an alternative state system model established in the power vacuum proceeding Bashar al‐Assad regime withdrawal from expansive territor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/content-school-textbooks-nation-states-and-stateless-autonomies-comparison-turkey-and-autonomous - 2025-09-23