Folkmord, flyktingar och fortlevnad. Cover: Artos & Norma Bokförlag I början av 1900-talet åkte hundratals skandinaviska kvinnor ut i världen för att som missionärer sprida det kristna budskapet samt verka inom sjukvård och undervisning. Ofta handlade det om en livslång gärning under svåra förhållanden. I den här boken möter vi tre sådana kvinnor som dessutom kom att hamna mitt i storpolitikens st

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-cmes-svante-lundgren-and-maria-smaberg - 2025-08-23

Photo by Lina Trochez on Unsplash In the seventh anniversary of the Gezi Park protests, Dr. Ömer Turan, Swedish Institute fellow at CMES, has published a chapter, in the volume edited by Maria do Mar Castro Verela, and Baris Ülker (Doing Tolerance, Urban Interventions and Forms of Participation, Barbara Budrich, 2020). Taksim Square’s historical backgroundThe chapter is comprised of three sections

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-publication-cmes-guest-researcher-omer-turan - 2025-08-23

On the 18th April, the town of Armanaz in the north-western countryside of the city of Idlib witnessed an escalation between Hayet Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the hegemonic jihadi group in Idlib province, and Hurras al-Din (HAD), the group believed to be Al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria. Reportedly, tensions escalated after HTS members attempted to expel HAD personnel from their bases in Armanaz. The dispute wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/about-power-dynamics-between-and-within-jihadi-factions-idlib-new-article-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2025-08-23

Photo: Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash The professor is expected to contribute to the Master’s programme The Religious Roots of Europe with its associated research environment focusing on early Islam, early Christianity and early Judaism. Lund University is also the host of the interdisciplinary strategic research area The Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), based here at the Centre for Middl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/permanent-position-professor-islamic-studies - 2025-08-23

Artist: Houmam AlSayed New article by CMES researcher Kholoud Mansour: This article aims at addressing the representation of the Syrian women in the media, the different barriers to their political participation and the politics of representation. The article uses contemporary empirical evidence to explore this subject, delving deeper into two experiences, the Women’s Advisory Board (WAB) to the U

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrian-women-and-their-participation-peace-process - 2025-08-23

Source: Al Aan TV The city of Idlib, which is the last bastion of the Syria opposition, has witnessed an escalation between two jihadi groups namely: Hayet Tahrir al-Sham and al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din and its allies. Orwa Ajjoub have provided a contextual analysis of the situation, the ideological debate it has generated between jihadi-Salafi ideologues. He also touched upon the the interna

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researcher-orwa-ajjoub-commenting-escalation-jihadi-gruops-al-aan-tv - 2025-08-23

Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash "The economy decimated, Lebanon was falling apart at the seams. Then came the August 4 explosion in the Beirut port, and the medical, economic and social catastrophe took on gargantuan proportions. The dead have not been counted yet, as many are still under the rubble, but over 5,000 are wounded. More than 300,000 are said to be homeless." "The Beirut port is a ke

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/im-devastated-beirut-city-i-thought-i-hated-cmes-rola-el-husseini-conversation - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mostafa Meraji on Unsplash Can populism have a progressive dimension? Can we speak about left and right-wing populism? Or does it lack ideological /value content in itself? Can populism enhance democracy or is it detrimental to it? Our next debate will be asking these questions.Do get in touch if you would like to submit an article and contribute to the debate by emailing: spyros [dot] sofo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-contributions - 2025-08-23

"On June 14, the U.S.-led international coalition targeted the car of Abu al-Qassam al-Urdini, a senior leader of al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate Hurras al-Din (HAD), and his fellow jihadi Bilal al-San’ani on the outskirts of Idlib. Two days later, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Idlib’s dominant jihadi group, arrested a former senior commander, Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, who had defected from HTS to join Ansar al-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/hts-and-al-qaeda-syria-reconciling-irreconcilable-cmes-orwa-ajjoub - 2025-08-23

Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash Coronaspridningen i Jemen är bortom kontroll. Och det finns ingen officiell statistik som återspeglar den verkliga situationen, vare sig gällande antalet infekterade eller antalet dödsfall. Den 10 april i år registrerade Jemen officiellt sitt första fall i Covid 19, men vissa inofficiella källor säger att viruset hade kommit tidigare, som på många andra ställen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/krigsharjat-jemen-hukar-under-pandemin - 2025-08-23

Transforming Iraq: a History of Development and the Politics of Third Worldism from 1968-1991 We are pleased to announce that CMES Michael Degerald is one of the 2020 TARII Fellows! TARII, with the feedback and support of a scholarly review committee, has selected seven Iraqi fellows and five American fellows. Michael is one of the five American fellows.Michael Degerald, Lund UniversityTransformin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/2020-tarii-fellowship-awards - 2025-08-23

Middle East Forum Newsletter #12 August, 2020 We hope you all had a warm and relaxing though probably somewhat unusual “hemester” summer holidays. The objective of this newsletter from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Strategic Research Area (SRA): the Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW), is to provide an overview of Middle Eastern research undertaken at Lund Universit

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-12-august-2020 - 2025-08-23

Photo: Scancode Productions on Unsplash By focusing on recent water struggles in rural Turkey against run‐of‐the‐river hydropower plants (SHPs), the research delves into the societal and economic factors that enable or inhibit the emergence of strong mobilizations through a comparison of four localities of the Eastern Black Sea region. The main aim of the cross comparison is to determine whether t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rethinking-political-economy-rural-struggles-turkey-space-structures-and-altered-agencies - 2025-08-23

Madeleine Kassab Congratulations to CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis"! The Syrian crisis is characterized by the intertwining of factors and variables at the local, regional and global levels.The geopolitical importance of Syria and the positions of the Syrian government on many issues, most notably the Arab-Israeli

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-0 - 2025-08-23

Photo: Hasan Almasi on Unsplash Graduate School together with CMES offers courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Persian, which are open to all Graduate School students. The courses are not credit bearing but you do receive a certificate at the end of each voluntary course.Courses in Modern Standard ArabicArabic is a sematic language and it is one of the six official languages of the UN. There are

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/language-courses-arabic-and-persian - 2025-08-23

Photo: Laura Kapfer on Unsplash The Dawit Isaak Library is a freedom of expression library at Malmö City Archives. It will open On 16 September 2020 to the public and it is located in Malmö City Archives' existing premises.  The library contains the banned books, books that have been burned or censored - all written by people who have been silenced, threatened, imprisoned or forced into exile beca

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-mohammed-almahfali-part-new-dawit-isaak-library - 2025-08-23

Somalia workshop about water management. The water sector in Somalia is fragmented and needs coordination to establish a functioning water governance system.  Therefore, in cooperation with UNDP and the Ministry of Energy and water resources and the Office of the Prime Minister, a national technical workshop was held in Mogadishu in March 2020.Four thematic areasAll involved stakeholders agreed on

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-dr-khaldoon-mourad-proposes-possible-water-compact-functioning-water-governance-system-somalia - 2025-08-23

Photo: Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash New research by CMES Raed Bashitialshaaer: "The results indicate that the professors and students faced self-imposed obstacles, as well as pedagogical, technical, and financial or organizational obstacles. Recommendations are presented to overcome and understand these obstacles to benefit in the future during unexpected or similar problems." This study aims to

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/exploratory-study-obstacles-achieving-quality-distance-learning-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2025-08-23

https://web.uoz.edu.krd This new project has now been been approved and signed by University of Zakho (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and CMES, Lund University.  The project will start with a course ''Research Methodology'' for master students from two departments at UOZ.  More about University of Zakho Contact:naseem [dot] salim [at] uoz [dot] edu [dot] krd (Naseem Salim Abdel) PhD in Engineering Phys

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-project-empowerment-and-evaluation-postgraduate-courses-scientific-research-approaches-based-e - 2025-08-23

Nationalistic arson? An interdisciplinary approach to forest fires and conflicts Today CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund are presenting in this POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) conference. Their paper is "Nationalistic arson? An interdisciplinary approach to forest fires and conflicts." In early October 2019, hundreds of frontline fossil fuel protesters took direct action against hard

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/geopolitical-ecologies-violence-and-resistance - 2025-08-23