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7 Nov 2025
Read the latest CMES Newsletter! #55
Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications.
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6 Nov 2025
PhD Viva: Time, Difference, and the Transnational. Feminist Activism and Solidarities in Egypt and Tunisia
CMES researcher Joel Abdelmoez will defend PhD thesis.
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6 Nov 2025
CMES Regional Outlook: The Ceasefire in Gaza and Trump’s 20-Point Plan
This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:3) by Karin Aggestam examines the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas.
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5 Nov 2025
PhD Viva: Borders and Pathways: Essays on Syrian Economic Development and Migrant Integration.
On December 1, 2025, at 10.15 a.m, at EC2:101, Lund, CMES PhD student Rami Zalfou will defend the PhD thesis titled: Borders and Pathways. Essays on Syrian Economic Development an...
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24 Oct 2025
Western Sahara: Between Extraction and Self-Determination
At a recent seminar at Lund University, CMES researcher Yahia Mahmoud traced the complex history and ongoing struggles of Western Sahara.
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15 Oct 2025
The cooking pot that became a symbol of Sweden’s commitment to helping Palestine.
CMES researcher Maria Småberg has recently published an article in The Conversation
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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.
