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2 Oct 2025
Read the latest CMES newsletter!
Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications.
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1 Oct 2025
Now Open: CMES Call for Writing Retreats
Writing retreat spring & autumn 2026 Apply by 20 november 2025
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29 Sep 2025
Extreme Loss – new project receives seed funding to explore farming futures in a changing climate
Associate Professor Pinar Dinc (Department of Political Science), together with colleagues from several faculties at Lund University and external partners, has received seed fundin...
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24 Sep 2025
Dialogue Police Visiting CMES for Lecture
The Dialogue Police Units in Lund and Malmö visited CMES for a guest lecture on Israel-Palestine by CMES director Karin Aggestam.
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24 Sep 2025
Strategies for present and future bubbler irrigation system management in a Saharan date palm oasis under climate change
New article from CMES
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23 Sep 2025
ECO-Syria Workshop Explores Environmental Politics and Civil Society in Post-Conflict Syria
The ECO-Syria research team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, convened its second and final workshop.
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17 Sep 2025
From Conflict to Peace: The PKK’s Disarmament and the Green Potential of Peace in the Middle East
CMES researchers Pinar Dinc and Lina Eklund have published a new policy brief: From Conflict to Peace: The PKK’s Disarmament and the Green Potential of Peace in the Middle East.
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15 Sep 2025
Developing Rainfall Spatial Distribution for Using Geostatistical Gap-Filled Terrestrial Gauge Records in the Mountainous Region of Oman.
New article from CMES.
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11 Sep 2025
Agonism and ethnography in Palestine
CMES researcher Anne Lene Stein has recently published an research article in Babylon – Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier.
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5 Sep 2025
Read the latest CMES Newsletter!
Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications.
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5 Sep 2025
Roots of destruction: exploring the genocide-ecocide nexus through the destruction of olive trees in occupied Palestine and Rojava
CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has recently published an research article an The international journal of human rights.
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5 Sep 2025
How does the PKK’s disarmament affect Turkey, Syria and Iraq?
CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has recently published an article in the Conversation.
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5 Sep 2025
Methods for recycling gain support among Israeli and Palestinian communities.
CMES researcher Maria Småberg has recently published an article in Globalbar Magazin together with Johan Schar associate Senior fellow at SIPRI.
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22 Aug 2025
Welcome to an Open House at CMES!
Welcome to CMES on 5th September to meet our staff and learn more about our research, activities and Arabic language courses!
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4 Aug 2025
Now Available: CMES Yearbooks 2021-2023 and 2024
Two CMES Yearbooks (2024 and 2021-2023 respectively), are now available to read and download.
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25 Jun 2025
CMES Regional Outlook: Global Responses to the Escalating Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:2) by Lisa Strömbom focuses on the global responses to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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24 Jun 2025
Read the Latest CMES Newsletter (#52)
Read the May-June CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications.
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18 Jun 2025
New MECW Project on Satellite Water Investigation of Fragile Terrains: Monitoring and Managing Environmental Alterations Under Conflict and Governance Stress
CMES is happy to announce the new MECW project for 2025-2028 which will focus on satellite water investigation of fragile terrains in the Middle East.
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18 Jun 2025
CMES Symposium Explores Urban Memory Beyond Sacred/Secular Divides
On June 12–13, CMES hosted the symposium "Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Imagining the Nation in Urban Space" at Lund University.
