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CMES Anders Ackfeldt new editor of the journal CyberOrient

CyberOrient is devoted to research on the impact of cyberspace and its representation on the Middle East, North Africa and wider Islamic world in Asia. 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

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-anders-ackfeldt-new-editor-journal-cyberorient - 2025-08-25

CMES affiliated researchers launch climate research project in Sudan

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 - 2025-08-25

NEW BOOK "Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe" Edited by CMES Dalia Abdelhady and others

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 - 2025-08-25

Political exigency or religious affinity? Sectarianism in the contemporary Arab world - new article by CMES Rola El-Husseini

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’. Rola El-Husseini In this formulation, groups not traditionally associated with Twelver Shiism, such as the ‘Alawis of Syria or the Zaydis of Yemen, were sudde

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/political-exigency-or-religious-affinity-sectarianism-contemporary-arab-world-new-article-cmes-rola - 2025-08-25

The content of school textbooks in (nation) states and “stateless autonomies”: A comparison of Turkey and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava) - new article by Pinar Dinç

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 - 2025-08-25

Middle East Forum Newsletter #8 February, 2020

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. Middle East Forum Newsletter #8 February, 2020 The region is likely to continue to display rapid and sudden developments during coming decades. Demographic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-8-february-2020 - 2025-08-25

Seminar and Vodcast Series draws attention to the infringements of Academic Freedom in Turkey and provides a forum for those affected

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 - 2025-08-25

Orwa Ajjoub: After Baghdadi’s death, why did Islamic State fighters give a pledge to their new leader?

New article by CMES researcher Orwa Ajjoub in The Conflict Archives - a platform created to showcase work focused on conflict, insurgency and politics across the globe including the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Central America. The website is a collection of news, articles, insights and analyses supported by in-depth analysis and research of contemporary conflict zones by several researcher

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/orwa-ajjoub-after-baghdadis-death-why-did-islamic-state-fighters-give-pledge-their-new-leader - 2025-08-25

How Iran’s Islamic Revolution Does, and Does Not, Influence Houthi Rule in Northern Yemen

New article by CMES Mohammed Almahfali & James Root in The Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies - an independent think-tank that seeks to foster change through knowledge production with a focus on Yemen and the surrounding region. The Center’s publications and programs, offered in both Arabic and English, cover political, social, economic and security related developments, aiming to impact policy l

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-irans-islamic-revolution-does-and-does-not-influence-houthi-rule-northern-yemen - 2025-08-25

Research on populism published as cartoons

Having just marked two months since its launch, #rethinkingPopulism has already published 9 articles and an interactive map tracing the topography of research on populism and gender. Continuing to pursue the project’s aim to contribute to a vigorous and constructive, yet widely accessible debate for a non-academic and younger public as well as populism researchers, #rethinkingPopulism has now prod

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/research-populism-published-cartoons - 2025-08-25

Book talk at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York by Maria F Malmström

Maria Malmström (Lund) discussed her latest monograph The Streets are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt with Professor Omar Dewachi (from Rutgers). Professor Maria Malmström is Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. Professor Maria Malmström is Associate Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, where she, in J

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-graduate-center-city-university-new-york-maria-f-malmstrom - 2025-08-25

A Panel Discussion: Raison d'État in the “New” Turkey - POSTPONED

18 March 2020, @ 15:00 CMES, Lund University, Finngatan 16 Please register here: maria.lofstedt@cme.lu.se Photo: Meriç Dağlı on Unsplash Speakers:Pınar Dinç, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University“Turkey's Unchanging Raison d'État? Narratives on Dersim 1938”Reyda Ergün, Faculty of Law, Kadir Has University,“Raison d’État and the Regimes of Gender and Sexuality in Turkey under the AKP r

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/panel-discussion-raison-detat-new-turkey-postponed - 2025-08-25

Documenting Syria; Revolution, Filmmaking and Video Activism- full house seminar

CMES affiliated fellow, Joshka Wessels, talked about her book “Documenting Syria; Revolution, Filmmaking and Video Activism” recently published by IB Tauris/Bloomsbury. Documenting Syria; Revolution, Filmmaking and Video Activism Syria is now one of the most important countries in the world for the international documentary film industry. The most recent Syria documentary film “For Sama” is nomina

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/documenting-syria-revolution-filmmaking-and-video-activism-full-house-seminar - 2025-08-25

She found a sanctuary in Lund - about CMES Pinar Dinc and her research and life journey

A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. It is a journey that is not over yet.   A desire to be able to freely carry out research and the chance to provide her daughter with a good education led Pinar Dinc to leave Turkey. Photo:Kennet Ruona However, with another prestigious research grant from For

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/she-found-sanctuary-lund-about-cmes-pinar-dinc-and-her-research-and-life-journey - 2025-08-25

Adaptive Scatter Search to Solve the Minimum Connected Dominating Set Problem for Efficient Management of Wireless Networks

New article by CMES guest researcher Shada Abdulaziz. An efficient routing using a virtual backbone (VB) network is one of the most significant improvements in the wireless sensor network (WSN). One promising method for selecting this subset of network nodes is by finding the minimum connected dominating set (MCDS), where the searching space for finding a route is restricted to nodes in this MCDS.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/adaptive-scatter-search-solve-minimum-connected-dominating-set-problem-efficient-management-wireless - 2025-08-25

Mordet på Soleimani kan få stora konsekvenser

Vad är de regionala konsekvenserna efter mordet på den iranska generalen Qassem Soleimani och det upptrappade läget mellan USA och Iran? Spyros A. Sofos, forskare vid Centrum för Mellanösternstudier, kommenterar läget.   – Den USA-iranska krisen bekräftar också den fundamentala skillnaden mellan amerikansk och iransk regional strategi. Photo: Fars News/Wikimedia Commons   Read more here 2020-01-30

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/mordet-pa-soleimani-kan-fa-stora-konsekvenser - 2025-08-25

Middle East Forum Newsletter #7 January, 2020

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Middle East Forum Newsletter #7 January, 2020 Message from the director:UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)6 is devoted to safe access to water and sanitation. The Middle East stands out in this respect since several of its countries now are experiencing a severe physical water scarcity, not due to climate change but due to that the population in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-7-january-2020 - 2025-08-25

Societal impacts of climate stress: An integrated assessment of drought, vulnerability and conflict in Syria

New three year FORMAS research project at CMES, conducted by Lina Eklund, Pinar Dinc and Petter Pilesjö. Climate change is expected to have widespread effects on societies across the world. While it is difficult to predict exactly how we will be affected in the future, we can gain a better understanding if we study earlier extreme climate events and their effects on society. Extreme climate and co

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/societal-impacts-climate-stress-integrated-assessment-drought-vulnerability-and-conflict-syria - 2025-08-25

CMES leading an international project on populism

At a time when new political actors are challenging contemporary democracies in the name of “the people”, there is little agreement on the meaning of populism among academics, political activists and citizens alike. Introducing the first in a series of interactive maps. Aiming to bring together voices that don’t often interact, either because they belong to different fields of work, or as a result

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-leading-international-project-populism - 2025-08-25

Call for papers for "Inequalities, Peace, Conflict, and Justice in Turkey" workshop

Three months after organizing the "Inequalities, Peace, and Conflict in Turkey" workshop in Stockholm, we are happy to announce this call for papers for the "Inequalities, Peace, Conflict, and Justice in Turkey" workshop. The issues are resistance and solidarity, labor, social welfare and social justice, and environmental justice. This second workshop aims to add the justice dimension to the discu

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-inequalities-peace-conflict-and-justice-turkey-workshop - 2025-08-25