CMES Director Karin Aggestam has been interviewed on SVT (Swedish public service television) about the key concepts in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The segment "Kriget mellan Israel och Hamas: Detta betyder begreppen" (English translation: "The war between Israel and Hamas: This is what the concepts mean") was aired on SVT's morning show ("Morgonstudion") on 12 October, 2023 (at 7:36

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israel-hamas-war-key-concepts - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom has been interviewed on Radio Sweden about the Hamas attack on Israel. One segment on the war between Israel and Hamas aired on 9 October 2023 as part of the show "Förmiddag i P4 Malmöhus" (P4 Morning in Malmöhus) on Radio Sweden. Lisa also participated in a segment on the war between Israel and Hamas as part of the show "Förmiddag i P4 Kristianstad" (P4 Morning in Kr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/understanding-hamas-attack-israel - 2025-09-01

Read and listen to CMES researchers' media interviews, podcasts and articles. 2025Svenska kastruller med oväntad hållbarhet, article (in Swedish) by Maria Småberg, Globalbar (18 august)Israel pressas på svar om dödade journalister, interview (in Swedish) with Lisa Strömbom, Radiokorrespondenterna Mellanöstern, Swedish Radio, (12 august)How does the PKK’s disarmament affect Turkey, Syria and Iraq?,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-media-analyses-latest-developments-middle-east - 2025-09-01

CMES Director Karin Aggestam has been interviewed on Radio Sweden about Hamas and its leadership. The segment on the war between Israel and Hamas aired on 12 October 2023 as part of the show "Eftermiddag i P4 Malmöhus" (P4 Afternoon in Malmöhus) on Radio Sweden. Listen to the interview (in Swedish) with Karin Aggestam (1:21:00) Karin Aggestam's research profile Karin Aggestam CMES Director, Profes

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/explaining-hamas-and-its-leadership - 2025-09-01

CMES Director Karin Aggestam has been interviewed by Expressen about the Hamas system of tunnels in Gaza. The article "Hamas hemliga tunnelsystem – här göms döda och levande" (English translation: "Hamas's secret tunnel system – both dead and alive are hidden here") was written by Helena Trus and Anna Friberg and published in Expressen on 11 October 2023.  Read the article (in Swedish) Karin Agges

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hamas-secret-system-tunnels-gaza - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom has been interviewed on SVT (Swedish public service television) about a possible ground invasion of Gaza. The segment on a possible ground invasion of Gaza was aired on SVT on 12 October 2023. Watch the interview (in Swedish) with Lisa Strömbom Lisa Strömbom's research profile Lisa Strömbom Associate Professor in Political Science

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/what-would-ground-invasion-gaza-entail - 2025-09-01

CMES Director Karin Aggestam has been interviewed by Radio Sweden about the Israeli war cabinet and the new national government. The segment on the new national government in Israel and the war cabinet was aired on Radio Sweden as part of the programme P1 Morgon (P1 Morning) on 13 October 2023. Listen to the interview (in Swedish) with Karin Aggestam Karin Aggestam's research profile Karin Aggesta

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israeli-war-cabinet-and-new-government - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom was interviewed for the Expressen podcast "Läget" about the conflict between Israel and Palestine and possible solutions. Lisa was interviewed for the Expressen podcast "Läget", which aired on 12 October 2023.  Listen to the interview with Lisa Strömbom (10:32) Lisa Strömbom's research profile Lisa Strömbom Associate Professor in Political Science

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/possible-solutions-israel-and-palestine - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Nina Gren has written an article in The Conversation about how despair can drive people to violence in the Palestinian conflict. The article "Palestinian conflict: how despair can drive people to violence, even if it puts their lives in danger" was published on 13 October 2023.  Read the article Nina Gren's research profile Nina Gren Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/despair-and-violence-palestinian-community - 2025-09-01

Photo: Mohammed Ibrahim/Unsplash Israel is in shock. The most basic task of a country's defence forces is to guard and protect its borders. Yet the Israeli army was caught completely off guard when thousands of terrorists entered the country to murder and take hostages. Read the interview with Karin Aggestam, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/war-between-israel-and-hamas - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has been interviewed by ABC Radio Sydney about the Azerbaijani invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh. The interview aired on 5 October 2023 on ABC Radio Sydney.  Over the last few weeks, you might have heard about Azerbaijan's invasion of a small Armenian-controlled territory called Nagorno-Karabakh. The region has been contested for quite some time. Still, this recent invas

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/history-nagorno-karabakh - 2025-09-01

Vilhelm Persson, Karin Aggestam, Karin Zackari and Oliver Scharbrodt. Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren On October 9, Debatt i Lund/Debate in Lund focused on the recent Qur'an burnings in Sweden and freedom of expression. The discussion is now available to watch on YouTube. CMES Director Karin Aggestam discussed how the Qur’an burnings in Sweden travel transnationally and go viral, and get hijacked by

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/watch-panel-discussion-quran-burnings-and-freedom-speech - 2025-09-01

CMES Visiting Professor Dalia Dassa Kaye has authored an article on the risk of escalating violence in the Middle East setting Israel and Iran on a collision course. The article is published in Foreign Affairs. After Hamas launched its horrific attack on Israel on October 7, many observers initially expected the war to remain a limited conflict between Israel and Hamas. Israel, Iran, and the Unite

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/will-war-gaza-ignite-middle-east - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Nina Gren and CMES affiliated researcher Isabell Schierenbeck have been interviewed in Universitetsläraren about how the conflict between Israel and Hamas affects academia. The article "Mellanösternkonflikt slår mot akademin" (English translation: "The Conflict in the Middle East Affects Academia") was written by Linus Hellerstedt and published in Universitetsläraren. Below are som

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-conflict-middle-east-affects-academia - 2025-09-01

Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES in earth observations of land cover and vegetation dynamics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! For assessment criteria, terms of employment, instructions on how to apply and other information, please see the job listing. Type of employment: Temporary position Employment expires: 2025-12-31 Contract type: Full time First day of employment: 202

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-opening-cmes-postdoctoral-fellow-earth-observations-middle-east - 2025-09-01

Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES to study political youth, water security, research data infrastructure or geopolitics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! Postdoctoral Fellow on Political Youth in Middle East Conflicts The postdoctoral position will be part of a research project focused on the Middle East and youth in armed conflicts. The conflicts in the Middle East and Nort

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-openings-4-cmes-postdoctoral-fellows-political-youth-water-security-and-geopolitics - 2025-09-01

CMES researchers Amir Naghibi, Hossein Hashemi, Pengxiang Zhao, Sara Brogaard, Lina Eklund and Ali Mansourian have co-authored an article on dust storm source susceptibility, published in the journal Atmospheric Pollution Research. The article, "Spatiotemporal variability of dust storm source susceptibility during wet and dry periods: The Tigris-Euphrates River Basin", was also co-written by Husse

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dust-storm-source-susceptibility-tigris-euphrates-river-basin - 2025-09-01

Photo credits: Satellite image from SentinelHub; photo of young woman by Aziz Acharki/Unsplash; all other images generated through Adobe Firefly. Five postdoctoral fellowships on the Middle East are opened on (1) political youth in conflict (2) water security and sustainable development (3) earth observations (4) geopolitics and regional cooperation and (5) data research infrastructure Apply befor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-openings-5-postdoctoral-fellowships-middle-east - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Rola El-Husseini Dean has authored an article on the feminization of the judiciary and diminished powers of the courts in Lebanon, published in the Newsletter of the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. This short piece examines the presence of women in the judiciary of a small Arab state, once defined as a liberal polity, but

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/feminization-judiciary-lebanon - 2025-09-01

CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has written an article in The Conversation how the war in Gaza has led to increased attacks on Jews around the world. The article "Attacks on Jews always rise globally when conflict in Israel and Palestine intensifies" was published in The Conversation on 1 November 2023.  Read the article Svante Lundgren's research profile Svante Lundgren

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/attacks-jews-increase-when-israeli-palestinian-conflict-intensifies - 2025-09-01