CMES Helen Avery attended the workshop Defending and Exhibiting Diversity in Syrian Museums, 29-31 October 2019. "Looking back to a rich history of the Middle Ages, medieval collections are an integral part of many Arab Museums. This is especially true for the Arab countries in Northern Africa and the Near East: From Morocco to Iraq there exist plenty of large and small, state owned and private mu

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Come and watch this film with us at November 4, at 4 pm! FIKA will be served here at 3 30 pm. The Seven Doors is a local story told from a universal perspective. Instead of foregrounding “our values”, it questions the status quo, and also makes inroads for imagining less cynical alternatives—to prioritize inclusion rather than exclusion, to find desirable paths rather than pointing out wrong paths

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seven-doors-documentary-film-film-maker-and-researcher-mehmet-mim-kurt - 2025-08-27

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University - read here or subscribe! Middle East Forum Newsletter #4 October, 2019 To the full newsletter2019-10-29

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With a background in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mehran Naseri Rad is currently doing his Ph.D. at the Division of Water Resources Engineering and Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University. Mehran Naseri Rad. His job is to look at environmental pollutions and particularly soil and groundwater contamination to find better options for managing them.Not enough attention has

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/working-new-multi-disciplinary-solutions-managing-water-problems-middle-east - 2025-08-27

"We must historicize the interaction between women and the state regarding the ban, as well as the broader societal and cultural barriers, intrastate divides and international dynamics that have contributed to the longevity of the exclusion of women from sports spectatorship over the long forty years that Iranian women have been left out in the cold. Without underestimating the symbolic role of Sa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mobilizing-pity-iranian-women-long-road-azadi-stadium-cmes-nazanin-shahrokni-and-spyros-sofos - 2025-08-27

Researcher Orwa Ajoub: "The danger of ISIS will not end with the killing of Al-Baghdadi" CMES affiliated Orwa Ajoub in رادیو السوید Radio Sweden Arabic. في تعليقه لراديو السويد على مقتل زعيم تنظيم داعش أبو بكر البغدادي، قال الباحث بمركز دراسات الشرق الأوسط بجامعة لوند عروة عجوب، أن سقوط الارهابي البغدادي قد يؤثر على التنظيم، ولكنه لا يعني نهايته بل ان اديولوجيته قد تستمر عبر ما يعرف بـ "الذئاب الم

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/orwa-ajoub-radio-sweden-arabic-killing-al-baghdadi - 2025-08-27

The UN Migration's first online talk show to break all the barriers and get you closer to the different aspects and opportunities of migration. "Hijrah Talk" Episode 4: Successful Cultural Integration Stories with Dr. Dalia Abdelhady. Photo: IOM MENA Watch Hijrah Talk's 4th episode to learn more about Successful Cultural Integration Stories with Dalia Abdelhady.In English with Arabic subtitles.201

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/un-migration-successful-cultural-integration-stories-filmed-interview-cmes-dalia-abdelhady - 2025-08-27

An important barrier to interdisciplinary work is the difficulty to communicate over disciplinary boundaries. The seminar series on concepts, of which the seminar on Capacity Building is the fourth, is intended to create a platform for the discussions needed to overcome such barriers. There will be interdisciplinary presentations to straighten out the concept of Capacity Building as a research per

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/capacity-building-research-concept - 2025-08-27

The Embassy of Canada to Sweden and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University are pleased to invite you to a seminar on Leaving Radical Society: Processes of Exit from Violent Extremism. Leaving Radical Society: Processes of Exit from Violent Extremism In recent years, focus on the incidence of radicalization leading to violence in society has increased throughout Europe and North A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leaving-radical-society-processes-exit-violent-extremism - 2025-08-27

Workshop in London, 10–12 October, 2019, at Aga Khan Centre Participants: Jonas OtterbeckMaria Frederika MalmströmCristina Moreno AlmeidaTom RiceSama AlshaibiMichael FrishkopfRobert SaundersDeborah KapchanAnja FranckDarci SprengelAnne-Mette KirkegaardMartin SköldMarc MichaelZiad FahmyMark LeVineTed SwedenburgShayna SilversteinStefan Williamson FaMichael Muhammad KnightTorsten JansonGabriella Calch

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/touching-sound-passion-and-global-politics - 2025-08-27

Tisdag 12 november kl. 18-19 Pufendorfinstitutet, Biskopsgatan 3 Medverkande: Olof Heilo, Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul Samuel Rubenson, Centrum för Teologi och Religionsvetenskap Vägar till Bysans Olof Heilo (red.), Vägar till Bysans, Norma förlag 2019142 sidor, med 50 kartor och illustrationerBokbeställning: www.artos.se2019-10-17

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Associate Professor Varuzhan Geghamyan is visiting Lund University. He works at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University. He is a Turkey scholar, but the Faculty has three departments: for Turkish, Arabic and Iranian studies. While Professor Varuzhan Geghamyan is here he will give three public lectures:Monday, October 21, at 12:00 noon at CMES: Personality cults in Modern Turkey

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-turkey-and-armenia-professor-varuzhan-geghamyan - 2025-08-27

Three experts on Turkey from CMES will visit Stockholm and SUITS, the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, in December. CMES at SUITS The researchers are:Pinar DincOmer TuranSpyros Sofos2019-10-15

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The “Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey” workshop aims to shed light on the patterns and mechanisms of inequalities and their impact on societal conflicts in Turkey. We invite papers that tackle the issues of inequalities, peace, and conflict in Turkey from a broader perspective, including social, economic, political and spatial features. Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey Date and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-workshop-inequalities-peace-and-conflict-turkey - 2025-08-27

This week on the brand new blog CMES researchers Pinar Dinc, Orwa Ajjoub and Spyros A. Sofos contribute texts that attempt to shed light on the questions arising from the increased volatility in the region. Dinc and Sofos provide their takes on the implications of the US military withdrawal from Northern and Northeastern Syria in Syria, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also k

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-blog - 2025-08-27

USA:s tillbakaträdande från de kurdiska områdena i norra Syrien och Turkiets invasion där gör kurderna, araberna, turkmenerna, assyrierna, armenierna och andra som bor i regionen väldigt sårbara. Det menar Turkietexperten Pinar Dinc, på Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds universitet.   Svårt läge i Rojava. Photo: Wikimedia Read the full article here 2019-10-11

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A talk "Personality cults in Modern Turkey: narratives, discourses and authoritarian politics", two films: "Seven Doors" (also on Turkey) and "No way to freedom: from Western Sahara to Gaza" plus the Conversation Series: Passion and politics. Fall events at CMES These are some of the events, hosted by CMES, that will take place during the fall.Stay tuned on our Facebook-page for the latest news.20

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2025-08-27

Research in suspicious fields can be transformative in both amplifying and destructive ways. "Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay, I work to understand my embodied experience in the field in a broader perspective by exploring how suspicio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/infused-suspicion-transformation-anthropologist-body-new-article-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2025-08-27

How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global p

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2025-08-27

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Middle East Forum Newsletter #3 September, 2019 Read the newsletter hereSubscribe here2019-09-12

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