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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 Theologies About 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, d

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/power-poverty-and-hereafter-islamic-liberation-theology-and-economics - 2026-11-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-11-11

CMES will offer several part-time internships for Lund University students during the autumn of 2026. - CLOSED 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. - CLOSED Who We Are CMES supports, coordinates an

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/come-work-us-student-internships-cmes-autumn-2026-closed - 2026-11-11

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 Director It 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 partic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-62 - 2026-11-11

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 Univers

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/shirin-ebadi-discusses-human-rights-and-democracy-iran-studentafton - 2026-11-11

Congratulations to Leysan Storie, who recently delivered her docent lecture, Belonging, Gender, and Cultural Citizenship in the Digital Age: Perspectives from the Middle East and beyond. Drawing on her research in the Arabian Gulf, Storie explored how digital media can create spaces for participation and belonging, while also reinforcing boundaries around who is included and how people are expecte

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/congratulations-leysan-storie-her-docent-lecture - 2026-11-11

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 - 2026-11-11

How can tourism become a space for political education and solidarity? At a CMES seminar on 22 October, visiting PhD candidate Neixé Castellano LLordella from the University of Barcelona explored this question through ongoing research on Palestinian tourism initiatives. Drawing on interviews, online research and fieldwork in the West Bank, Castellano LLordella examines how Palestinian guides and o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/alternative-tourism-and-political-narratives-palestine - 2026-11-11

CMES researcher Sami Al Daghistani has published a new article, Imam al-Ghazali’s Epistemology and Economic Thought, in the Journal of Interdisciplinary and Strategic Studies (IJISTRA). Read the article , open access (external link) About the author: Sami Al Daghistani   Abstract The thought of Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, read as a unified opus rather than as a set of discrete texts, discloses an e

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/imam-al-ghazalis-epistemology-and-economic-thought - 2026-11-11

CMES researcher Karin Aggestam has published a new book on democratic backsliding in Israel, which includes a chapter by CMES deputy director Lisa Strömbom on agonistic conflict dynamics and contested pasts. This open access book examines the mass protest movement that emerged in Israel in 2023 in response to the government’s proposed judicial overhaul, situating it within the broader political, i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-democratic-backsliding-israel-and-elusive-peace - 2026-11-11

Karin Aggestam, professor of Political Science at Lund University, has been awarded the RJ Sabbatical 2026 grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for a book project on peace diplomacy in Israel–Palestine. Part of the research will be conducted at the University of Oxford. By bridging diplomatic studies with peacebuilding research, the book offers a new approach to understanding how peace diplomacy e

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/karin-aggestam-awarded-research-grant-riksbankens-jubileumsfond - 2026-11-11

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 - 2026-11-11

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 - 2026-11-11

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 - 2026-11-11

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 R

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-raison-detat-new-turkey-postponed - 2026-11-11

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 - 2026-11-11

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 - 2026-11-11

New article by CMES guest researcher Shada Abdulaziz. An efficient routing using a virtual backbone (VB) network is one of the most significant improvements in the wireless sensor network (WSN). One promising method for selecting this subset of network nodes is by finding the minimum connected dominating set (MCDS), where the searching space for finding a route is restricted to nodes in this MCDS.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/adaptive-scatter-search-solve-minimum-connected-dominating-set-problem-efficient-management-wireless - 2026-11-11

Vad är de regionala konsekvenserna efter mordet på den iranska generalen Qassem Soleimani och det upptrappade läget mellan USA och Iran? Spyros A. Sofos, forskare vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier, kommenterar läget.     Read more here 2020-01-30  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mordet-pa-soleimani-kan-fa-stora-konsekvenser - 2026-11-11

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: UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)6 is devoted to safe access to water and sanitation. The Middle East stands out in this respect since several of its countries now are experiencing a severe physical water scarcity, not due to climate chan

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-7-january-2020 - 2026-11-11