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Former CMES researcher Dr Rami Zalfou and CMES board member Prof Martin Dribe have been awarded the 2025 Alixa Naff Prize for Best Scholarly Paper in Migration Studies. Their winning article, “Premium or Penalty? Occupations and Earnings of Ottoman Immigrants and Their Offspring in the United States, 1900-1940”, published in the European Review of Economic History, uses extensive US census data to

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/scholarly-paper-prize-winner-dr-rami-zalfou-and-prof-martin-dribe - 2026-06-09

Former researcher Altea Pericoli has published a new book with Edinburgh University Press, entitled Islamic Aid and Gulf States in Contemporary Crises the book was written as a part of her postdoc project which was funded by CMES. Read and download it here. Open Access. (Link to external website)Provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of Gulf States’ foreign aidDescribes the Islamic value

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islamic-aid-and-gulf-states-contemporary-crises - 2026-06-09

On 2–3 March, CMES hosted a workshop on agonistic diplomacy to kick off the newly launched UNPEACE project led by Isabel Bramsen with researchers Katarzyna Jezierska and Lisa Strömbom. On 2–3 March, CMES hosted a workshop on agonistic diplomacy to kick off the newly launched UNPEACE project led by Isabel Bramsen with researchers Katarzyna Jezierska and Lisa Strömbom. The project explores the Unite

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/workshop-agonistic-diplomacy - 2026-06-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-anders-ackfeldt-new-editor-journal-cyberorient - 2026-06-09

This unique garden cultivates 60 plant species mentioned in the Qur’an and Hadith, transforming religious texts into living symbols of sustainability. By blending Islamic ethics with modern ecology, the QBG offers a model for faith-based environmental stewardship, one that addresses climate vulnerability, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss in the Gulf region. On 12 March 2026, Zenia Henriksen (

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/quranic-gardens-where-faith-meets-environmental-action - 2026-06-09

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. Read CMES newsletter here.CMES is pleased to announce a new Call for Project Proposals. We will fund 1–2 new research projects running from 2026 to 2029.  This is an exciting opportunity to develop innovative research within Middle Eastern studies in a dynamic, interdiscipli

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-56 - 2026-06-09

New article published in Scientific Reports by CMES researcher Filippo Verre, Ronny Berndtsson and Hossein Hashemi.  Read the full article here (External Link)AbstractWater scarcity is a dynamic condition influenced by a variety of factors, including environmental variables but also political, economic, technological, and social variables. This research reflects the intersection of natural resourc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/redefining-water-scarcity-through-integrated-water-strategic-resilience-index-amid-climate-and - 2026-06-09

Drylands are often portrayed as hotspots for climate-driven conflict, but this narrative risks oversimplifying their complex realities. In a new article in Cambridge Prisms: Drylands, CMES researcher Lina Eklund critically examines the climate-conflict link in Syria. Read the article here (External link)AbstractDrylands account for a disproportionate share of the world’s armed conflicts, a pattern

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/drylands-frontlines-adaptation-shift-away-climate-conflict-narrative - 2026-06-09

In her new book Agonistic Memory and Peace, Lisa Strömbom, Deputy Director of CMES, explores how contested memories in Colombia, Israel-Palestine, and Northern Ireland can become tools for dialogue and peace. Download the book as open access hereThe book Investigates memory initiatives in three of the world’s hardest to solve conflicts and how they can be invested with more constructive dynamicsAg

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-memory-and-peace - 2026-06-09

Today we celebrated Nowruz, the Persian new year at CMES. Text: Rafah BarhoumNowruz, meaning "new day" in Persian, is an ancient, 3,000-year-old festival marking the Iranian New Year and the spring equinox (March 20/21). Celebrating rebirth and the great victory of light over darkness, it is honored by over 300 million people across the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.Haft Sin هفت سين 

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nowruz-celebration-cmes - 2026-06-09

New Study by CMES Researcher Sinem Kavak: How Climate Change Shapes the Lives of Migrant Farmworkers. Read the article here (External link).HighlightsExamines climate change vulnerability of migrant farmworkers through a critical political economy lens. Synthesises a decade of qualitative data from multiple regions and historicises agri-labour migration in Turkey. Moves beyond hazard-based studies

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/agri-labour-mobility-changing-climate-systems-approach-vulnerability-and-precarity-among-migrant - 2026-06-09

Mats Fred and Alexander Paulsson write about two public transport authorities (PTA) who went from procuring IT and digital services to build in-house IT-capacity to gain power and control over “the digital”. Through a study of app making, this study shows that digital sovereignty is not only about controlling software development or data ownership, but also about re-configuring the organization in

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/digital-sovereignty-and-public-authorities-efforts-byte-back - 2026-06-09

AbstractThis article takes as its point of departure the postcolonial understanding of the nation as a subject constructed through the colonial encounter. It argues that at the core of both colonial and postcolonial subject formations lies a desire for reconstructing a homogeneous nation that fulfils a ‘hunger for certainty’. The use of the term ‘hunger for certainty’ testifies to the emotional as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson-hunger-certainty-misrecognition-masculinity-and-agentic-action - 2026-06-09

Subsidies to fossil fuels – oil, coal and gas – are notoriously difficult to reform with global subsidy levels reaching a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a new article, Nils Droste, Benjamin Chatterton and Jakob Skovgaard study the political economy of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Studying industrialised countries they find that renewable energy and well-functioning political instituti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-economy-theory-fossil-fuel-subsidy-reforms-oecd-countries - 2026-06-09

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the book The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy. About the book: The overarching aim of the book is to provide the first comprehensive account of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy and its dissemination through digital diplomacy. In contrast to other scholarly studies of digital diplomacy that tend to vi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-feminist-foreign-policy-and-digital-diplomacy - 2026-06-09

Sara Kalm is one of the co-authors of the article “Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons” which has recently been published. The article, which presents a new data set, has Margaret E. Peters (UCLA) as lead author, and the other co-authors are Frida Boräng and Johannes Lindvall (Gothenburg University) and Adrian Shin (University of Colorado: Boulder). AbstractIn recent years, scholar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-introducing-novel-historical-immigration-policy-dataset-sara-kalm-and-others - 2026-06-09

In the 2022 Swedish General Election, the Liberal party was in danger of not reaching parliamentary representation, but finally succeeded to make it to parliament. How opinion polls affect this kind of voting is the focus in a new publication by Annika Fredén together with colleagues at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, published in International Journal of Public Opinion Research (IJPOR)

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-strategic-voting-threshold-parties - 2026-06-09

Laura Landorff and Anders Uhlin have authored the article “Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? Exploring capital gains through boundary crossing”, recently published in European Politics and Society. Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? The article addr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/landorff-and-uhlin-economic-and-political-elites-eu-civil-society - 2026-06-09

Professor Ian Manners has just published the concluding article on ‘Political psychology of emotions in European Union foreign policy in times of ontological (in)security and crisis’ in a special issue of the Journal of European Integration edited by Seda Gürkan and  Özlem Terzi on The role of emotions in EU foreign policy.Professor Manners’ concluding article argues that understanding when and ho

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/concluding-article-special-issue-political-psychology-emotions-european-union-foreign-policy-times - 2026-06-09

Despite 15 years of international commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, global subsidies reached a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a recent article for npj Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake and their co-authors call for a new approach that includes time-bound roadmaps, closing loopholes, and offering support to lower-income countries. The authors argue that current

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-approach-needed-address-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2026-06-09