Lisa Strömbom, Deputy Director of CMES, provides expert commentary in today’s Dagens Nyheter on the US and Israel’s attack on Iran and why it may constitute a breach of international law.
👉 Read the full article in Swedish:
www.dn.se/sverige/tre-...
Lisa Strömbom, CMES Deputy Director and Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University provides expert analysis on the unfolding events and their implications in P1’s Godmorgon, världen!
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/iran...
#Iran #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #CMES #LundUniversity
Yesterday, the CMES Seminar featured Maria Louise Clausen from the Danish Institute for International Studies. Her talk examined how governance structures formed during ongoing conflict shape the prospects for peace in Yemen.
Read the article here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/semi...
📢 Tomorrow (Thursday) at 13:15 - CMES Seminar: Between War and Peace – Governance and Political Authority in Yemen.
Join a seminar at the Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies with Maria Louise Clausen from the Danish Institute for International Studies.
🎓 Come Work with Us! Student Internships Spring 2026
Are you a student at Lund University with an interest in the Middle East region?
📚 Open to Lund University students
🌍 Focus on the Middle East region
🚀 Hands-on project experience
Read more and apply:
www.cmes.lu.se/article/come...
New insights into the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Jordan
🌍A recent workshop brought together researchers, practitioners, and students from Lund University, SOAS and Brunel University London. 🤝
📢 CMES Seminar – 5 February
Join us for a talk by Adam Almqvist on
“The Authoritarian Afterlives of International Liberal Norms: Jordan and the UN Youth, Peace and Security Agenda in Comparative Perspective”.
🕒 13:15–14:30
📍 CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16
☕️ Coffee, tea and pastries served
Today, CMES researcher Pınar Dinç was interviewed in Dagens ETC on parallels between Trump’s rhetoric and Erdoğan’s approach to central bank independence. (In Swedish)
👉 www.etc.se/inrikes/trum...
👉CMES Yearbook 2025 is now available to read and download.The Yearbooks summarize the Centre's activities during the year.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes...
Read the latest CMES Newsletter! #55
Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/read...
Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is proud to announce that researcher, Joel W. Abdelmoez, PhD Candidate in Political Science, has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Lund University.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel...
New book from CMES.
CMES director, Karin Aggestam has edited the book Israel: Democratic Backsliding and Elusive Peace.
👉 Read the article here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-...
New article from CMES
The 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza brought the humanitarian response into the spotlight, alongside the international community’s inability to deal with political obstacles in the humanitarian response.
👉 Read here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/huma...
International Workshop - Green extractivism
The rapid expansion of wind and solar infrastructure in the West Asia and North Africa (WANA), framed as part of sustainability and green energy transitions, raises urgent questions.
👉 Read more about the workshop here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/inte...
New article from CMES!
Discover how combining ensemble empirical mode decomposition with deep learning models improves daily pan evaporation (Evp) prediction—crucial for water resource management in semi-arid regions as in northeastern Iran.
🔗 Read the full article: www.cmes.lu.se/article/impr...
📢 Don’t miss this seminar at Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University!
“Frictional Humanitarian Homebuilding – Civil Society Actors’ Navigation in the Politics of International Aid”
🗓 11 December 2025 | 13:15–15:00
📍CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16, Lund
📢 Eco-Syria Workshop Report Now Available in Arabic and Kurdish!
The report from the Eco-Syria workshop is now accessible in two new languages. Explore the findings and insights shared during the event.
📄 Read more and download here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/eco-...
#CMES #EcoSyria #MiddleEast
CMES is proud to announce that CMES researcher, Rami Zalfou, PhD Candidate in Economic History, has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Lund University.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/rami...
#lunduniversity #EconomicHistory
🔥 How can citizen engagement and satellite data help researchers understand wildfires in the Middle East?
CMES researcher Lina Eklund shares insights in a new Q&A.
👉 Read the full interview:
www.cmes.lu.se/article/mapp...
#LundUniversity #CMES #CitizenScience #Wildfires #Research
CMES researcher Adam Almqvist has recently published an article in The Journal of Comparative Politics titled:
“GONGOs, Zombies, and Astroturfers: Rethinking Hybrid Institutions in Autocracies Through a Case of Jordanian.”
👉 Read more here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/gong...
On Tuesday, PhD candidate Joel Abdelmoez marked a major milestone at Lund University by performing the traditional ceremony of spikning—nailing his dissertation. 🎓📚
Read the full story here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel...
CMES-Seminar hosted a highly topical seminar titled “It’s Time to Think About the Future of Palestine-Israel.” featured two distinguished speakers: Professor Haim Yacobi and Dr Rami Nasrallah, from University College London.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes...
New Publication from CMES:
This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/environmental-politics-north-and-east-syriarojava-scoping-and-conceptual-literature-review
📄 Joel W. Abdelmoez, PhD student at CMES, was interviewed in Göteborgs-Posten. (In Swedish)
👉 www.gp.se/nyheter/varl...
📢 CMES Seminar: It’s Time to Think About the Future of Palestine\Israel
🗓 Date: 20 November
🕐 Time: 13:15 – 15:00
📍 Location: Department of Political Science, Eden, Room 236
Speakers:
🎙️ Presentation by Rami Nasrallah & Haim Yacobi, University College London.
www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cme...
Where does justice come into play during and after a war? Is it possible to create a just peace after years of death and destruction? These are some of the questions raised in this episode of the podcast On Justice: War and Peace with Karin Aggestam.
In Swedish.
shows.acast.com/8bf44047-aad...?
New article from CMES: Managing coastal aquifer salinity risks: Strategies for balance, recharge, and crop adaptation.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/mana...
The ECO-Syria research team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, held its second and final workshop on 15–16 September 2025.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/eco-...
CMES Seminar. Thu 13:15. Launch of the edited volume The Republic of Turkey and Its Unresolved Issues: 100 Years and Beyond. Join us at CMES, Finngatan 16, Lund.
www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cme...
This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:3) by CMES Director Karin Aggestam examines the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes...
