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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies supports research projects with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports writing retreats on Middle East research with the aim to fina
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-cmes-writing-retreat - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. March 23, 7 pm Swedish time at University of Virginia Register for the book talk here About the book This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events.
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/maria-f-malmstrom-giving-online-talk-about-her-latest-book-streets-are-talking-me - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During the pandemic mediators and conflict parties have had to interact, discuss and even negotiate via computer screens. Women negotiators have benefited from this and describe how they experienced the virtual medium as a more equal space since it is more difficult for men to dominate with body language and appearanc
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/virtual-meetings-more-equal-space-women-peace-negotiators - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Yemen’s Higher Education Crisis” – the second webinar of the IIE-SRF Dialogues series – will focus on Yemen’s higher education emergency and its impact on university professionals. Scholars from Yemen who have directly experienced the crisis will share their stories and offer insights on the unique challenges facing
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemens-higher-education-crisis-cmes-mohammed-almahfali-one-speakers - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Thursday this week Kaveh Madani is participating in a CMES Research seminar on "Rethinking Environmental Security: The Lessons Learned from the Middle East". The attention to the topic of environmental security is on the rise in the 4D (Development, Disaster, Diplomacy and Defense) circles. We have enough evidence to
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-quick-questions-kaveh-madani-yale-university - 2026-09-17
During the First World War the Assyrians suffered great losses as a result of massacres and deportations organized by the Ottomans. Between 250.000 and 300.000 Assyrians are estimated to have lost their lives during the Seyfo, the Syriac word for “sword”. Several Assyro-Chaldean delegations, from different countries and different churches, participated in the Paris Peace Conference after the War i
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/failure-assyrian-lobbies-paris-peace-conference-1919-new-article-cmes-svante-lundgren - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The review summarizes key findings of 53 peer-reviewed publications, published in English in the period 1994–2020 identified with the search terms “global learning” and “sustainable development”, sustainability or GLSD, respectively. Despite continued efforts by educators, UN declarations and numerous international
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/global-learning-sustainable-development-historical-review-cmes-helen-avery - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The title in Turkish: "Üzülmeden özür mümkün mü? Devlet söyleminde Dersim 1937-38" in a lecture series organized by Bogazici University philosophy students “Phil-Free”. Phil-Free is an educational community, established by the students of the Philosophy Department at Boğaziçi University. They are trying to make room f
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. General debate under agenda Item: 9 - racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 22 Mar 2021
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Depuis quelques années, les quotas pour femmes ont fait leur apparition dans la vie politique de plusieurs pays arabes. Quel est l’impact ces quotas ont-ils sur les élections législatives dans le monde arabe ? CMES Rola El-Husseini gave a talk (in French) for a think tank in Paris, Centre Arabe de Recherches et d'
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/la-participation-politique-des-femmes-une-decennie-apres-les-revoltes-arabes - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab participated in a Women & Children conference and gave a talk discussing the issues of the Arab entrepreneur woman. Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Amr Ezzat Salama, Secretary-General of the Association of Arab Universities, Swedish Iraqi Studies Network, and the Knowledge Enrichment
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-framing-arab-entrepreneur-woman - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Three fully funded PhD positions on demography, comparative politics and water availability in the Middle East. PhD Student in Economic History: Demography in the Middle East The PhD project and the doctoral dissertation must be focused on the demography of the Middle East, and the PhD candidate will will have double
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-open-phd-positions-cmes-1 - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their w
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. Since 2014, the natural environment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been negatively affected by recurrent conflict that coincided with
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-geopolitics-fire-conflict-and-land-kurdistan-region-iraq - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dalia Abdelhady has presented a paper on “Perception of Educational Inequality among the Children of Immigrants in Three Systems” (with Amy Lutz from Syracuse University) at the European Sociological Association meeting in Manchester, UK, August 20-23, 2019. She also presented a paper on “Perception of Social Mobility
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour has just published a chapter in the report "Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? The chapter is published 09/09/2019 by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in their report, which is found here: REBUILDING SYRIA The Middle East’s Next Powe
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Maria F Malmström is holding a book talk at University of Oxford. About the book: "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of these even
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2026-09-17
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issues central for understanding the ways in whi
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. What can cognitive semiotics bring to visual semiotics, and vice-versa? Visual semiotics has, most of
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". The politics of place naming in Turkey have historically been dense and controversial. Naming and/or renaming places are political acts that affect dai
