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The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports, creates and coordinates multidisciplinary research at Lund University (LU) on the Middle East.
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CMES Seminar Series

Each semester CMES organizes a broad range of research and public seminars
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Middle East Research at Lund University

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News and Calendar

Latest news
15 Feb 2021
‘Welcoming’ European welfare states are forcing refugees through mazes of harmful rules
When we think of the gruelling journeys refugees often take to reach Europe, our minds often cast back to 2015, when more than a million people fled danger in search of a better…
12 Feb 2021
Five questions to Orwa Ajjoub, writer of the report: From Afghanistan to Syria: The development of the theological…
Orwa Ajjoub`s new report explores the historical development of the theological concepts of jihadi Salafism and their implications on the ground. By doing so, it interrogates the…
8 Feb 2021
Citizen science for sustainable agriculture – A systematic literature review
By CMES Helen Avery (and Larmbert Ebitua, Khaldoon A.Mourad, Joshua Enyetua)
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Mar

11 March 2021 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar

CMES Research Seminar: The Missing Sense of Peace [in Syria and Yemen]. Diplomatic Approachment and Virtualization during the COVID-19 Lockdown
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Mar

25 March 2021 13:15 to 14:30 | Seminar

CMES Research Seminar: Rethinking Environmental Security. The Lessons Learned from the Middle East
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31 March 2021 15:15 to 16:30 | Seminar

CMES Public Seminar: The Arab Spring Ten Years On
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