In August 2019, the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) will be hosting the conference in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The conference is open for participants beyond the Nordic countries. Several researchers from CMES will be presenting their work at the conference. In August 2019, the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East (

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/break-ing-and-creating-boundaries-middle-east-nsmes2019helsinki - 2025-08-25

Under det fullsatta seminariet ”Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten – vad händer nu?” avhandlades på onsdagen allt från Turkiet till Egypten och Algeriet i ett soligt Almedalen.   De många konflikterna i Mellanöstern (Photo: Amnesty Press, Ylva Sundgren) Ämnet var minst sagt omfattande, men de tre experterna i panelen gjorde sitt bästa för att guida publiken genom regionens utveckling och många k

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/almedalen-2019-de-manga-konflikterna-i-mellanostern-amnesty-press - 2025-08-25

Heavy rainfall and flooding in late March and early April 2019 affected millions of people in Iran, caused deaths, displacement and catastrophic damage to the infrastructure. The historic Kashkan bridge was damaged in the recent flood. This is happening while the country has long suffered from frequent droughts and adaptive management practices are not in place to deal with such fluctuations.Read

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/disastrous-floods-after-prolonged-droughts-have-challenged-iran - 2025-08-25

CMES is arranging three seminars on the Middle East next week in Almedalsveckan in Gotland. Middle East beyond the Islamic state. What happens now?  Swedish municipalities after IS - to work with returnees and prevent new travelers to terrorist groups.  Culture, religion, honor and clan. How do we understand the Middle East?   Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten. Vad händer nu? 3/7 2019 10:00 - 1

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-final-programme - 2025-08-25

A new cohort of students have graduated with a Master's degree in ME studies and wrote master's theses on very diverse topics (Algeria, Afghanistan, Jordan and migration from the ME to Europe). Master Students graduated First row left to right:Zane LiepenlauskaLinda el-NaggarTaha Haj AhmadDalia Abdelhady (teacher)Emma Nordvall Back row left to right:Toby BruceJia LiuDavid Norcross Isobel CoweyPern

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/me-master-students-graduated - 2025-08-25

We wish you all a warm and relaxing summer. However, in only a few weeks from now the important Almedalen week starts. Lund University is as always well represented and many panels have connections to the Middle East and the dynamics of this region. Middle East Forum Newsletter #2 As well, keep your eyes and ears open for coming news on the planned public seminars that we are arranging on MENA rel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-2-summer-edition - 2025-08-25

CMES guest researcher Defne Kadıoğlu Polat just published a chapter in the book "German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics". Creatively Displaced? The Impact of Neoliberal Urban Policies on Immigrants from Turkey in Berlin "In recent years, dialogue between Germany and Turkey has increasingly become subject to political, ac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/creatively-displaced-impact-neoliberal-urban-policies-immigrants-turkey-berlin - 2025-08-25

Svante Lundgren is a researcher at CMES. Two of his popular science books have recently been published in translation. The Assyrians - Fifty Years in Sweden Assyrierna - från Nineve till Södertälje (2014) have been published in Dutch: De Assyriërs - van Nineveh naar Enschede (AJN Press). It has previously appeared in German (2015) and English (2016) translation.Assyrierna femtio år i Sverige (2017

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/books-assyrians-svante-lundgren-translated - 2025-08-25

Pinar Dinc, researcher from from CMES, tomorrow holds a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. The “Art” of Government: Reading Turkey’s Raison d’etat through Novels and Short Stories on Dersim 1937–38 Being a mountainous region with numerous bodies of water, valleys, and grottos, Dersim or Tunceli was a shelter for non-dominant groups (non-Sunni and non-Turkish) for centuries. Bot

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/art-government-reading-turkeys-raison-detat-through-novels-and-short-stories-dersim-1937-38 - 2025-08-25

Next week CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour is speaking at an event that marks the launch of policy papers by the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) on an engendered constitution, the return of displaced Syrians and reconstruction. The papers relied on the findings of a series of national consultations conducted with eight women groups in the regime-controlled areas, in northern Syr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-syrian-political-process-return-displaced-syrians-reconstruction-and-engendered - 2025-08-25

From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, what has changed? CMES Researcher Orwa Ajjoub has written an article examining the history of one of the most significant opposition groups in the Syrian conflict, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). In it, he traces the group through four main phases: during the first phase, which lasted between January 2012 and April 2013, the group emerged under the name

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-history-hts - 2025-08-25

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a post-doc that will be part of the research area regarding groundwater as a natural resource in the arid Middle East and how the use of satellite data and advanced machine-learning algorithms can be used to solve complex water supply problems. The groundwater is rapidly dwindling as a natural resource in the Middle East. At the same time popula

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2025-08-25

Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! Middle East Forum Newsletter #1 May, 2019 The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern. Its immense strategic importance and strong role in the world economy, together with an unp

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2025-08-25

CMES, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a new platform called ip-ACIRR* are working to promote rights for people with disabilities in contexts of armed conflicts and for inclusive post-conflict society building. New cooperation initiative around people with disabilities in conflict areas When CMES researcher Helen Avery was in Sulaimaniya in Kurdistan, she vis

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cooperation-initiative-around-people-disabilities-conflict-areas - 2025-08-25

Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, region

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-presentation-sol-sprak-och-litteraturcentrum-lund-university - 2025-08-25

Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis- a presentation at SOL, Språk- och litteraturcentrum Lund Un

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis - 2025-08-25

Monday the 27th of May, CMES affiliated researcher, the Syria scholar and ethnographic filmmaker Joshka Wessels will present her upcoming book which will be published by Bloomsbury/IB Tauris entitled "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". Cover: I.B. Tauris Joshka's book is the world's first history of Syria

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/worlds-first-history-syrian-documentary-cinema - 2025-08-25

This year's Graduate Student Conference was entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to present and discuss their own research and ideas. One of the presentations was The Hurdles of the Patriarchy – Women and Politics in Lebanon by Julia van Zijl. Women in political positions and democratic tra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-and-politics-lebanon-one-many-interesting-presentations-graduate-student-conference - 2025-08-25

CMES researchers Helen Avery and Spyros Sofos are working to build a university-wide post-conflict research network with strong and diverse international connections. This brings together scholars and practitioners working on reconstruction of social fabrics and physical/technical infrastructure, institution building, rehabilitation of populations, memory, justice and reconciliation, transitions t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/university-wide-post-conflict-research-network - 2025-08-25

Helen Avery's work concerns sustainability transitions in the Middle East, with a particular focus on strategies for environmentally and socially sustainable society building. Research interests include organisational development, creativity and transdisciplinarity in higher education, internationalisation strategies, as well as participatory and future-oriented methodologies in a variety of setti

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-helen-avery-meeting-research-colleagues-kurdistan - 2025-08-25