How do salinity and chloride interact to affect plant growth and soil health?
Read the latest CMES article for new research insights.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/sali...

How do Syrians recalibrate their lives after conflict and upheaval?
Read about the key insights from yesterday’s CMES seminar with Andreas Bandak, University of Copenhagen.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/worl...

How do urban spaces become sites of power and national symbolism?
A new CMES article by Torsten Janson and Mattias Kärrholm, examines Safra Square in Jerusalem and how politics, space and everyday practices shape dominance and national narratives.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/squa...

Join Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies for a panel discussion on the turbulent events in Iran during winter/spring 2026

🗓️ When: 27 April 2026, 18:15–20:00

👉 Read more and register here: www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/wha...

Tehran. Photo Sajad Nori / Unsplash

📢 In tomorrows CMES seminar

“Worlds of Waymaking: Viability, Orientation, and the Recalibration of Syrian Lives” with Andreas Bandak, from University of Copenhagen.

🗓️ 16 April 2026, 13:15–14:30
📍 CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16

👉 www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cme...

How can the Middle East move towards sustainability and peace in times of conflict and environmental crisis?
Read about the key insights from our recent CMES panel discussion, held as part of Sustainability Week 2026 at Lund University.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/sust...

A full CMES seminar on fieldwork in repressive and illiberal contexts — now summed up in a short article.
👉 www.cmes.lu.se/article/chal...

In a new article, CMES researchers reflect on how climate stress and conflict are reshaping the region.
Contributions include Lisa Strömbom, Deputy Director of CMES, together with Hossein Hashemi and Maria Andrea Nardi, both CMES researchers.
👉 www.lu.se/artikel/mell...

📢 CMES-Seminar on fieldwork in challenging contexts: Challenges and Strategies for Fieldwork in Repressive and Illiberal Countries by Merouan Mekouar (York University, Canada)

🗓 9 April 2026 | 13:15–14:30
📍 CMES Seminar Room, Finngatan 16, Lund

👉 Learn more: www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cme...

Book talk 8 April | Between God and State: Iran after the “Long 20th Century”

Discussant: Lisa Strömbom, CMES Deputy Director.

👉 Read more at Human right studies webbpage: www.mrs.lu.se/en/about-us/...

New article co-written by CMES researcher Torsten Jansson.

Focusing on museum exhibitions and commemorative practices, the study explores how the 1922 fire of Smyrna (Izmir) is interpreted, framed, and instrumentalised within contemporary Turkish memory politics.

Climate change is altering Saharan dust – and Europe is downwind Rising temperatures and shifting winds are changing how dust travels from the Sahara to Europe.

In a new article for The Conversation, CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi reveals how climate change is reshaping Saharan dust storms and their growing impact on Europe.

👉 Read the article: theconversation.com/climate-chan...

#LundUniversity #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalScience #TheConversation

Join us this Thursday for a seminar on The Making of Migrant Labour: Politics of Land Displacement, and Social Reproduction in Turkey with CMES researcher Sinem Kavak.

📅 26 Mars
⏰ 13.15 - 14.30
📍 CMES Seminar Room, Finngatan 16, Lund

www.cmes.lu.se/calendar/cme...

Climate change isn’t just about the weather, it’s reshaping lives.

New research cowritten by CMES researcher Sinem Kavak explores how migrant farmworkers in Turkey face climate vulnerability, precarity, and systemic inequality.

Read the article: www.cmes.lu.se/article/agri...

Today, we celebrated Nowruz at CMES! 🌷🌿

A joyful gathering to welcome spring.

👉 Read more: www.cmes.lu.se/article/nowruz-celebration-cmes

Can memory heal conflict?
In Agonistic Memory and Peace, Lisa Strömbom, CMES Deputy Director, explores how contested pasts in Colombia, Israel-Palestine, and Northern Ireland can become tools for dialogue and transformation.

👉 Read more: www.cmes.lu.se/article/agonistic-memory-and-peace

In a new article in Cambridge Prisms: Drylands, CMES researcher Lina Eklund critically examines the climate-conflict link in Syria.

👉Read more: www.cmes.lu.se/article/dryl...

How can we build resilience against water stress? A new article from CMES introduces the Integrated Water Strategic Resilience Index, a framework for sustainable water management amid climate and geopolitical challenges.

www.cmes.lu.se/article/rede...

Yesterday, Zenia Henriksen (University of Southern Denmark) presented her fascinating research on Muslim environmentalism at Lund University’s CMES seminar.

Read more about the seminar here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/qura...

Photo: Linus Edlund / Lunds universitet

Join us tomorrow Thursday for a intresting seminar on Muslim Environmentalism: Religious Environmental Ethics in Practice with Zenia Henriksen from the University of Southern Denmark.
📅 12 March
⏰ 13:15–14:30
📍 CMES Seminar Room, Finngatan 16, Lund
🍵 Coffee, tea will be served after the seminar.

🚀 Last chance! Apply for a spring internship at CMES!

CMES (Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University) is now accepting applications for spring 2026 internships! Deadline: March 15.

📅 Apply now: www.cmes.lu.se/article/come-work-us-student-internships-cmes-spring-2026

Workshop on Agonistic diplomacy
On 2–3 March, CMES hosted a workshop on agonistic diplomacy to kick off the newly launched UNPEACE project led by Isabel Bramsen with researchers Katarzyna Jezierska and Lisa Strömbom.
Read more about the workshop here. www.cmes.lu.se/article/work...

Tre experter: Därför är attacken i Iran ett brott mot internationell rätt USA:s och Israels attack mot Iran är ett brott mot internationell rätt, enligt tre experter DN pratat med. Men kan ändamålet helga medlen?

Lisa Strömbom, Deputy Director of CMES, provides expert commentary in today’s Dagens Nyheter on the US and Israel’s attack on Iran and why it may constitute a breach of international law.

👉 Read the full article in Swedish:
www.dn.se/sverige/tre-...

Irans ledare död efter attacken – blir det regimförändring nu? - Godmorgon världen Ayatolla Ali Khamenei har dött efter att Donald Trump tillsammans med Israel attackerade Iran igår morse, med syfte att störta den iranska regimen som ...

Lisa Strömbom, CMES Deputy Director and Associate Professor in Political Science at Lund University provides expert analysis on the unfolding events and their implications in P1’s Godmorgon, världen!

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/iran...

#Iran #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #CMES #LundUniversity

Yesterday, the CMES Seminar featured Maria Louise Clausen from the Danish Institute for International Studies. Her talk examined how governance structures formed during ongoing conflict shape the prospects for peace in Yemen.

Read the article here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/semi...

📢 Tomorrow (Thursday) at 13:15 - CMES Seminar: Between War and Peace – Governance and Political Authority in Yemen.

Join a seminar at the Centre for Advanced Middle East Studies with Maria Louise Clausen from the Danish Institute for International Studies.

🎓 Come Work with Us! Student Internships Spring 2026

Are you a student at Lund University with an interest in the Middle East region?

📚 Open to Lund University students
🌍 Focus on the Middle East region
🚀 Hands-on project experience

Read more and apply:
www.cmes.lu.se/article/come...

New insights into the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Jordan

🌍A recent workshop brought together researchers, practitioners, and students from Lund University, SOAS and Brunel University London. 🤝

📢 CMES Seminar – 5 February
Join us for a talk by Adam Almqvist on
“The Authoritarian Afterlives of International Liberal Norms: Jordan and the UN Youth, Peace and Security Agenda in Comparative Perspective”.

🕒 13:15–14:30
📍 CMES seminar room, Finngatan 16
☕️ Coffee, tea and pastries served

Trump kopierar Erdoğan i attack mot centralbanken – här är läxan från Turkiet Paul Levin: ”Det är lite som att kissa i byxan en kall vinterdag.”

Today, CMES researcher Pınar Dinç was interviewed in Dagens ETC on parallels between Trump’s rhetoric and Erdoğan’s approach to central bank independence. (In Swedish)

👉 www.etc.se/inrikes/trum...