Published 29 April 2025 Applications are now open for the CMES Workshop Proposal of 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshops per year and encourages interdisciplinary

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-workshop-proposal - 2025-07-09

Published 6 May 2025 Read the April 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 Eve

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-51 - 2025-07-09

Published 8 May 2025 Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a un

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2025-07-09

Published 12 May 2025 CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc recently visited Yerevan, Armenia, for the launch of a new book and to engage in academic discussions. On 23 April, CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc participated in a panel discussion at Yerevan State University (YSU) for the launch of a new open access edited book by Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin Hunler (Acıbadem Uni

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-join-academic-exchanges-during-yerevan-visit - 2025-07-09

Published 14 May 2025 Welcome to a CMES Public Talk with Göran Rosenberg on the future of Israel. On Wednesday 21 May, CMES will host a public talk with renowned Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg on the future of Israel. The talk will be in conversation with Lisa Strömbom (Department of Political Science, Lund University), and moderated by CMES Director Karin Aggestam.This event is a c

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/whither-israel-upcoming-public-cmes-talk-goran-rosenberg - 2025-07-09

Published 15 May 2025 CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has written an article for The Conversation about the recent developments in the negotiations between Turkey and PKK. AbstractNegotiations to end more than 40 years of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) have taken on a concrete dimension. On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/why-are-turkey-and-pkk-turning-peace-and-can-it-last - 2025-07-09

Published 16 May 2025 On 8 May, Rola El-Husseini Dean (Lund University) held a CMES Research Seminar on the rise and fall of Hezbollah. Rola El-Husseini Dean is an associate professor with the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. She has previously held positions at Yale University, Texas A&M University, and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York. Her first book Pax Syriana: Elite Po

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-research-seminar-rise-and-fall-hezbollah - 2025-07-09

Published 23 May 2025 The CMES Yearbook 2024 is now available in both print and digital formats, offering a comprehensive overview of the Centre's work over the past year. The new official CMES Yearbook summarizes the Centre's activities during 2024, including:Research projectsResearch seminarsPublic lectures and eventsPolicy-dialogues, workshops, and conferencesCMES Regional OutlookTeaching and A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-yearbook-2024 - 2025-07-09

Published 23 May 2025 Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg visited CMES for a public talk on the future of Israel. On Wednesday 21 May, CMES hosted a public talk in Lund titled Whither Israel?, featuring Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg. The well-attended event took place in the Eden Auditorium at the Department of Political Science.Göran Rosenberg is the author of several ac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-talk-goran-rosenberg-whither-israel - 2025-07-09

Published 28 May 2025 Applications are now open for the CMES Call for Research Initiation. The application deadline is 18 August 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) provides seed money for research initiation and preparation of applications for national and international research calls. Two such research grants will be offered during the autumn of 2025. CMES offers office s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-research-initiation-2025 - 2025-07-09

Published 4 June 2025 How do ideas about ’the nation’ take place locally? How are imaginaries of ’a people’ represented and challenged in urban memory and forgetting? With what effects on community formation, polarisation, and everyday urban life? Concluding the three-year CMES project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring the Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion, this symposium assembles sch

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upcoming-cmes-symposium-beyond-sacredsecular-cities-imagining-nation-urban-space - 2025-07-09

Published 5 June 2025 CMES researcher Altea Pericoli has published an article in The International Spectator about Gulf States’ foreign aid. Pericoli, A. (2025). Understanding Gulf States’ Foreign Aid: A Conceptual Framework. The International Spectator, 1–18. Read the article here.About Altea PericoliDr. Altea Pericoli is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in geopolitics and regional cooperation at t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/understanding-gulf-states-foreign-aid-conceptual-framework - 2025-07-09

Published 10 June 2025 Lund University PhD student Anne Lene Stein will defend her thesis at the Department of Political Science. On 13 June, Anne Lene Stein will defend her PhD thesis titled Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel at the Department of Political Science, Lund University.The thesis explores how protests and performances in Pales

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/upcoming-phd-viva-agonism-against-odds-epistemic-disruptions-and-bodies-dissent-palestine-and-israel - 2025-07-09

Published 12 June 2025 CMES researcher Adam Almqvist has recently published about meaning-making and the politics of intergenerational injustice in Jordan. Almqvist, A. (2025) ”Meaning-Making and the Politics of Intergenerational Injustice in Jordan.” APSA-MENA Newsletter, 8 (1) Read the publication here.About Adam AlmqvistAdam Almqvist (Ph.D., University of Chicago 2023) is currently a Postdoctor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/meaning-making-and-politics-intergenerational-injustice-jordan - 2025-07-09

Published 17 June 2025 On 13 June, Anne Lene Stein successfully defended her PhD thesis "Agonism against the odds: Epistemic disruptions and bodies of dissent in Palestine and Israel" at the Department of Political Science. Anne Lene Stein's thesis explores how protests and performances in Palestine and Israel are used to challenge dominant versions of history and identity - especially those that

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonism-against-odds-epistemic-disruptions-and-bodies-dissent-palestine-and-israel - 2025-07-09

Published 18 June 2025 On June 12–13, CMES hosted the symposium "Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Imagining the Nation in Urban Space" in the LUX building at Lund University. The event marked the conclusion of the three-year research project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring the Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion, led by project chair Torsten Janson.Gathering both Swedish and international

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-symposium-explores-urban-memory-beyond-sacredsecular-divides - 2025-07-09

Published 18 June 2025 CMES is happy to announce the new MECW project for 2025-2028 which will focus on satellite water investigation of fragile terrains in the Middle East. The Middle East faces a critical water crisis exacerbated by climate change-induced aridity, unsustainable overexploitation, weak governance, and the weaponization of water in conflicts. Rising temperatures and prolonged droug

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-satellite-water-investigation-fragile-terrains-monitoring-and-managing - 2025-07-09

Published 24 June 2025 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 NewsUpcomin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-52 - 2025-07-09

Published 25 June 2025 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 implemen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-global-responses-escalating-humanitarian-crisis-gaza - 2025-07-09

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 April 2020 Minorities in Yemen 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 a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-minorities-yemen-reality-and-challenges - 2025-07-09