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Funding: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2025-2028 The Middle East faces a critical water crisis exacerbated by climate change-induced aridity, unsustainable overexploitation, weak governance, and the weaponization of water in conflicts. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts diminish surface water, while excessive groundwater pumping depletes aquifers, causing land subsidence and socio-economic impacts l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/satellite-water-investigation-fragile-terrains-monitoring-and-managing-environmental-alterations - 2026-09-07

Funding: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2025-2028 How can morality and ethics reshape our understanding of social change in a world dominated by material gain? This research explores Islamic moral philosophy and Sufi institutions as alternative frameworks for building civic virtues and public value beyond the modern colonial capitalist system. In light of ever-increasing social inequalities and the looming e

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/countering-hegemony-capitalism-and-nation-state-role-sufi-tariqas-production-moral-capital-and-civic - 2026-09-07

Funding: SRA-MECW. Duration: 2025-2029 The Nuclear Middle East project aims to confront the long-standing invisibility of the Middle East in nuclear thought by examining how nuclear politics in the region are imagined, contested, and lived. It confronts disciplinary boundaries to account for more diverse perspectives on the nuclear sphere. In doing so, it challenges hegemonic approaches to nuclear

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/nuclear-middle-east - 2026-09-07

Plan your journey – quickly and easily. Apply for your travel plan here. Complete the form on this page to ensure your trip complies with our guidelines. Before undertaking any business travel, you must submit a travel plan. This helps us maintain safe and sustainable travel practices.Use the form below to provide details of your trip, including purpose, destination, and dates. Once submitted, you

https://www.cmes.lu.se/form/travelform - 2026-09-07

Duration 2025 - 2028 The Extreme-Loss research project aims to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration and lay the groundwork for future research through a pilot study, joint publications, and the development of larger research funding applications. In the Extreme-Loss project, we start a new collaboration between MECW, BECC, and MERGE to explore the following broad research question: How can w

https://www.cmes.lu.se/strategic-research-area-middle-east/research-projects/extreme-loss-agricultural-workers-livelihoods-under-climate-change-related-extreme-weather-events - 2026-09-07

14 September 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Other Welcome to CMES on 14th September to meet our staff and learn more about our research, activities and Arabic language courses! Enjoy some Arabic sweets, mingle with our staff, and learn more about our Arabic language courses. CMES offers several Arabic language courses during the fall of 2025, exclusively for Lund University students and staff interested in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/open-house-cmes-0 - 2026-09-07

8 September 2026 16:00 to 17:00 | Seminar Join us for a CMES book launch titled, Three Scandinavian missionary women and the Armenian Genocide. Three Scandinavian missionary women and the Armenian Genocide', edited by Svante Lundgren and Maria Småberg, tells the story of three Scandinavian women who dedicated their lives to helping Armenian children and women afflicted by persecution and eventuall

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-book-launch-armenian-genocide - 2026-09-07

10 September 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a seminar introducing Utopian Desert, a new MECW project exploring smart cities in the Gulf region. Researchers Lorena Melgaço, Sandra Kopljar, Mattias Kärrholm and Dalia Mukhtar Landgren will present Utopian Desert: Investigating Smart Cities in the Gulf Region and discuss the project's aims and perspectives.Abstract: Driven by AI and digital

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-new-mecw-project-utopian-desert - 2026-09-07

24 September 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a seminar introducing the new MECW project Elite Mobilities. A growing number of states now “sell” citizenship or long‑term residence to wealthy elites. Countries adopt these programs to attract capital, stimulate development, and draw skilled individuals, while clients seek increased mobility, business advantages, tax benefits, or insurance a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-new-mecw-project-elite-mobilities - 2026-09-07

8 October 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a seminar with Fredrik Meiton, The Swedish Institute for Foreign Affairs (UI), Coffee, tea and pastries will be served after the seminar.Everyone is warmly welcome!  About the eventLocation:CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16.Contact:lisa [dot] strombom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-new-middle-east-bloc-politics-and-geoeconomics - 2026-09-07

5 November 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a exciting seminar with Zaha Hassan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cambridge Peace Initiative. More details about time and venue will be announced soon.Coffee, tea and pastries are served after each seminar.Everyone is warmly welcome! About the eventLocation:CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16.Contact:lisa [dot] strombom [at] svet [dot

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-palestinian-armistice-plan-charting-rights-based-transition-palestinian-israeli-peace - 2026-09-07

12 November 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a exciting seminar with former CMES-director Karin Aggestam. More details about time and venue will be announced soon.Coffee, tea and pastries are served after each seminar.Everyone is warmly welcome! About the eventLocation:CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16.Contact:lisa [dot] strombom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-democratic-backsliding-israel-and-elusive-peace - 2026-09-07

3 December 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a exciting seminar with Scientific Advisory Board member Michelle Pace. This seminar presentation examines Palestine as a paradigmatic case of the precarisation of politics and analyses the role of the European Union (EU) in stabilising this condition. It develops the concept of managed precarity to describe a situation in which political vulner

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-palestines-managed-precarity-eu-governance-denial-democratic-agency-and-foreclosure - 2026-09-07

17 December 2026 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar Join us for a excitning seminar with Masoumeh Mirsafah More details about time and venue will be announced soon.Coffee, tea and pastries are served after each seminar.Everyone is warmly welcome! About the eventLocation:CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16.Contact:lisa [dot] strombom [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se Save the event to your calendar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cmes-seminar-role-local-urban-development-plans-building-climate-resilience-case-study-mashhad-iran - 2026-09-07

The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) CMES was founded in 2007 to support, coordinate and expand interdisciplinary research at Lund University (LU) on the Middle East. Since then, CMES has been leading, coordinating and producing cutting-edge research through innovative, critical and multi-disciplinary approaches towards Middle Eastern studies. Research on the Middle East and Semit

https://www.cmes.lu.se/about-cmes - 2026-09-07

SASNET, – Swedish South Asian Studies Network, is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). SASNET is a subdivision of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).Contact information:SASNET – Swedish South Asian Studies NetworkLund Uni

https://www.cmes.lu.se/sasnet - 2026-09-07

CMES was founded in 2007 to support, coordinate and expand research at Lund University (LU) on the Middle East. These efforts will encourage and produce research with a more innovative, critical and multidisciplinary approach towards Middle Eastern studies. Our goal is to produce research at the highest international level. However we also believe that our research is vital for individuals working

https://www.cmes.lu.se/centre-advanced-middle-eastern-studies-cmes - 2026-09-07

Emma Johansson did her PhD between 2013 and 2018. Her thesis was about the phenomenon “land grabbing”, and how the environment and people are affected through agrobusinesses acquiring large tracts of land. At the beginning, the fieldwork for the thesis was planned in Sierra Leone, but after the Ebola outbreak in 2014, the plan had to be revised and changed.    The focus for fieldwork then became T

https://www.cec.lu.se/emma-johansson-0 - 2026-09-07

This interdisciplinary course will introduce the climate-biodiversity-health nexus and consider Nature-Based Solutions through the lens of (environmental) psychology, ecology, and epidemiology. It will include both theoretical lectures and application of the knowledge in group work, group discussions, and a study visit to two Nature-Based Solutions in Skåne (Malmö and Hörby). You can contact marli

https://www.cec.lu.se/form/phd-course-nature-based-solutions-climate-biodiversity-health-nexus-perspectives-environmental - 2026-09-07

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https://www.cec.lu.se/form/booking-information-invited-keynotes-and-panel-members-sra-europe-lund-18-21-june-2023 - 2026-09-07