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Yesterday afternoon, CMES researcher PhD candidate Joel W. Abdelmoez marked a major milestone in his academic journey by performing the traditional ritual known as "spikning"—the nailing of a dissertation. The ceremony takes place on the ground floor of Eden, and colleagues and friends gathered to witness the event. Following the ceremony, guests enjoy refreshments in the Political Science departm

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-abdelmoez-nails-his-phd-dissertation-feminist-activism-and-solidarities-egypt-and-tunisia - 2026-01-01

On November 20, the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University hosted a highly topical seminar titled “It’s Time to Think About the Future of Palestine-Israel.” The event brought together over 50 participants and featured two distinguished speakers: Professor Haim Yacobi and Dr Rami Nasrallah, from University College London. “We are living in very challenging times, but t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-seminar-explores-shared-homeland-paradigm-palestine-israel - 2026-01-01

CMES is proud to announce that CMES researcher, Rami Zalfou, PhD Candidate in Economic History, has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Lund University. The defense took place on December 1, 2025.Rami’s dissertation, titled:Borders and Pathways. Essays on Syrian Economic Development and Migrant Integration, explores economic development patterns, conflict, and demographic changes in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/rami-zalfou-successfully-defends-his-phd-thesis-syrian-economic-development-and-migrant-integration - 2026-01-01

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.Titled “ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict–Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation,” the event was part of the ECO-Syria research project funded by the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/eco-syria-workshop-report-now-available-arabic-and-kurdish - 2026-01-01

New article from CMES. Title: Improving the performance of daily pan evaporation (Evp) prediction using the ensemble empirical mode decomposition combined with deep learning modelsRead the article here (external link)AbstractThis study presents a novel approach for the prediction of daily pan evaporation (Evp) based on identifying an optimal combination of model inputs. The Kardeh Dam catchment ar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/improving-performance-daily-pan-evaporation-evp-prediction - 2026-01-01

Harvesting wind, stirring sands: the expansion of renewable energy frontiers, local resistance, and the European academic gaze on green extractivism in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) 11-12 December 2025, LundThe 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 about l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/international-workshop-green-extractivism - 2026-01-01

Read full article here. (External link)ABSTRACTThe 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. However, humanitarian interventions in the Gaza Strip and their effectiveness have long been debated by scholars and practitio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/humanitarian-exceptionalism-and-fluctuating-solidarity-gulf-states-aid-gaza - 2026-01-01

CMES director, Karin Aggestam has edited the book Israel: Democratic Backsliding and Elusive Peace. Bringing together scholars in the field, the book offers original analyses organised around three intersecting themes: contestation over Israel’s national identity, patterns of democratic backsliding, and the enduring impact of the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which renders peace elusive

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-democratic-backsliding-israeli-politics-and-protracted-conflict - 2026-01-01

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. The defense took place on December 19, 2025, at the Department of Political Science.Joel Abdelmoez investigates the conditions and tensions inherent in forging transnational feminist so

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/joel-w-abdelmoez-successfully-defends-his-phd-thesis-feminist-activism-and-solidarities-egypt-and - 2026-01-01

The CMES Yearbooks summarize the Centre's activities during the year. Read about:Research projectsResearch seminarsPublic lectures and eventsPolicy-dialogues, workshops, and conferencesCMES Regional OutlookTeaching and Arabic studies at CMESCMES in media and on digital platformsThe ConversationSelected publicationsRead and download the 2024 CMES Yearbook here.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-yearbook-2025-now-available-read-and-download - 2026-01-01

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. Read full newsletter here!Season's greetings from the team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies!CMES organised several major events during the latter part of the autumn semester. A topical public seminar was co-organised with Peace and Conflict Studies, focusing

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-55-0 - 2026-01-01

Yemen is home to religious and sectarian minorities who represent about 0.5% of the total population. In addition to Muslims, there is a minority of Jews, who’s presence has drastically shrunk over the years due to the multiple violations and displacement they were subjected to. Yemen also has a Bahai minority, who are currently estimated to number around 2,000 individuals. They also have been sub

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-minorities-yemen-reality-and-challenges - 2026-01-01

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University. Words from the director: The covid-19 will transform the ways we work and socialize in a manner we can still not oversee. Already now most research and higher teaching are done by distance mode. Even so, many of the planned research activities and meetings during the spring have had to be cancelled or postponed. Also, the Middle East is preparing

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-9-march-2020 - 2026-01-01

CyberOrient welcomes Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University in Sweden as a new Managing Editor along with Vit Sisler at Charles University. An expanded CyberOrient, an official open-access journal of the American Anthropological Association, is now up and ready for surfing. The renewed website, cyberorient.net, now has archived all past articles in PDF. CyberOrient is devoted to research on the impact

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-anders-ackfeldt-new-editor-journal-cyberorient - 2026-01-01

In January-February 2020, three researchers affiliated with CMES travelled to Khartoum, Sudan for the official kick-off seminar and workshop of a 3-year project that is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR), FORMAS and SIDA and entitled: "Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS): An Interdisciplinary Spatial and Temporal Study of Social Cohesion and Resilience to Tackle the Consequences of Climate an

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-affiliated-researchers-launch-climate-research-project-sudan - 2026-01-01

This book analyses the tensions that emerge within strong welfare states when faced with large migration flows. It also interrogates the phenomenon of the 2015 'refugee crisis' and its foreplay and aftermath in the context of Northern Europe and challenges the notion of crisis as a feature of contemporary realities. "With an eye to the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled populations,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-book-refugees-and-violence-welfare-bureaucracies-northern-europe-edited-cmes-dalia-abdelhady-and - 2026-01-01

The rise of sectarianism in the Middle East and North Africa after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq has led to a new conceptual category – arguably as political as it is religious – which Rola El-Husseini has previously termed the ‘new Shi’a’. In this formulation, groups not traditionally associated with Twelver Shiism, such as the ‘Alawis of Syria or the Zaydis of Yemen, were suddenly deemed by jou

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/political-exigency-or-religious-affinity-sectarianism-contemporary-arab-world-new-article-cmes-rola - 2026-01-01

This article compares the discourses of building nations and national identities fostered in the content of school textbooks in the Republic of Turkey—a modern, territorial nation‐state—and the Autonomous Administration of North and East of Syria (hereafter Rojava)—an alternative state system model established in the power vacuum proceeding Bashar al‐Assad regime withdrawal from expansive territor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/content-school-textbooks-nation-states-and-stateless-autonomies-comparison-turkey-and-autonomous - 2026-01-01

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Message from the director The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is an exceptionally dynamic area that has undergone great changes politically as well as economically during the latest decades. The region is likely to continue to display rapid and sudden developments during coming decades. Demographically the region will almost double its populati

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-8-february-2020 - 2026-01-01

An innovative project has received support from the Swedish Institute under its “support for cooperation with academics from Turkey” scheme. “Turkey Beyond Borders: Critical Voices, New Perspectives” aims to foster collaboration between academics in Sweden and scholars from Turkey whose academic freedoms are implicitly or explicitly curtailed and violated. The website is now launched, with 2 vodca

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/seminar-and-vodcast-series-draws-attention-infringements-academic-freedom-turkey-and-provides-forum - 2026-01-01