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On June 12–13, CMES hosted the symposium "Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Imagining the Nation in Urban Space" in the LUX building at Lund University. The event marked the conclusion of the three-year research project Beyond Sacred/Secular Cities: Exploring the Politics of Memory, Space, and Religion, led by project chair Torsten Janson.Gathering both Swedish and international scholars from a wide r

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-symposium-explores-urban-memory-beyond-sacredsecular-divides - 2026-09-11

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. The Middle East faces a critical water crisis exacerbated by climate change-induced aridity, unsustainable overexploitation, weak governance, and the weaponization of water in conflicts. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts diminish surface wa

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-mecw-project-satellite-water-investigation-fragile-terrains-monitoring-and-managing - 2026-09-11

Read the May-June CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publicat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-52 - 2026-09-11

This CMES Regional Outlook (2025:2) by Lisa Strömbom focuses on the global responses to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In February 2025, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into force, briefly easing the intense humanitarian crisis in Gaza after months of devastating conflict. The truce was structured in three phases. The first stage was implemented and included the ex

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-global-responses-escalating-humanitarian-crisis-gaza - 2026-09-11

Two CMES Yearbooks (2024 and 2021-2023 respectively), are now available to read and download. The CMES Yearbooks summarize the Centre's activities during a year or a selected period, including chapters covering:Research projectsResearch seminarsPublic lectures and eventsPolicy-dialogues, workshops, and conferencesCMES Regional OutlookTeaching and Arabic studies at CMESCMES in media and on digital

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/now-available-cmes-yearbooks-2021-2023-and-2024 - 2026-09-11

Welcome to CMES on 5th September to meet our staff and learn more about our research, activities and Arabic language courses! Enjoy some Arabic sweets, mingle with our staff, and learn more about our Arabic language courses. CMES offers several Arabic language courses during the fall of 2025, exclusively for Lund University students and staff interested in working and conducting research in Arabic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/welcome-open-house-cmes-0 - 2026-09-11

CMES researcher Maria Småberg has recently published an article in Globalbar Magazin together with Johan Schar associate Senior fellow at SIPRI. From aid shipments in the 1960s to a unique environmental project today – Swedish saucepans tell an unexpected story of sustainability and resilience.When Sweden sent saucepans to refugees in Beit Awa in 1967, few could have imagined they would still be i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/methods-recycling-gain-support-among-israeli-and-palestinian-communities - 2026-09-11

CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has recently published an article in the Conversation. Published: July 14.The historic disarmament ceremony on July 11 where members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) laid down their arms marked a pivotal moment in a decades-long conflict in Turkey. The ceremony was described by many who attended as a profoundly symbolic and emotional day that may signal the beginnin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/how-does-pkks-disarmament-affect-turkey-syria-and-iraq - 2026-09-11

CMES researcher Pinar Dinc has recently published an research article an The international journal of human rights. Ecological degradation not only affects local and global environments but also threatens the cultural survival of affected societies, exemplifying the phenomenon known as the genocide–ecocide nexus. This article presents the first comparative case study of olive tree destruction in o

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/roots-destruction-exploring-genocide-ecocide-nexus-through-destruction-olive-trees-occupied - 2026-09-11

Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications. After a well-deserved summer break, the CMES team gathered for a two-day kick-off at the beautiful Åhus Seaside to strategise and coordinate for the upcoming academic year. The autumn program for the CMES seminar series is already in place, offering a wide range of exciting

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-0 - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A Three Day PhD and Early Career Academic Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Contexts will be hold in New Delhi on 24th -26th May 2017. Venue: Willow, Habitat World, at India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. The workshop aims to encapsulate some of the most recent cutting-edge discussions emerging in the fi

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/delhi-workshop-social-policy-developing-contexts - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Friday 10 February 2017, 8.00-9.30 SASNET together with Media Evolution invites you to a morning with conversation about how professional roles and workplace is reshaping and how we can find ways to work toward a kinder Internet. Venue: Media Evolution City, Stora Varvsgatan 6A, 211 19 Malmö. What can one of the wo

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/worlds-best-morning-digital-dos-and-donts - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On Tuesday 21 February 2017, 15.30-17.00 Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi will hold a lecture entitled: "Breaking The Cycle of Hate" in the seminar room at the Center for Middle Eastern studies (Finngatan 16). The lecture is jointly organized by The Center for Middle Eastern studies and SASNET. We live in an increasingly polarise

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnetcmes-lecture-counter-extremism-pakistan - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda, PhD Scholars from School of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in India, visited SASNET's office. Rishi Jha and Deepak Kumar Nanda are Erasmus + Visiting Doctoral Fellows at School of Social Work, Lund University from Jan, 2017 till May, 2017.Rishi Jha's doctoral thesis

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/phd-scholars-tiss-visited-sasnet - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The South Asia Collective produces the annual South Asia State of Minorities Report, on the condition of minorities in each country in the region and the quality of state provisioning for them. The South Asia Collective released their inaugural 2016 report regionally in Kathmandu in November last year and are releasin

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/south-asia-state-minorities-report - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On the 16th of December 2016, Murad Altamash defended his PhD thesis at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Murad Altamash is from Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine Karachi in Pakistan and his thesis is entitled: "Periodontal conditions and treatment outcomes for subjects with diabetes mellitus : special emphasis on

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/murad-altamash-defended-his-phd-thesis-karolinska - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The scholarship application period has now started for The Lund University Global Scholarship and the deadline to apply is 15 February. Are you a non-EU/EEA student who applied to autumn 2017 Bachelor’s or Master’s studies? Check if you are eligible to apply for the Lund University Global Scholarship. The scholarship

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/lund-university-global-scholarship - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Nordic Initiative for Innovation and Development (NIFID) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit legal entity under Swedish law, which is is headquartered in Malmö, Sweden and planned for geographic coverage of operations in Nordic and South Asian countries including a regional chapter in Dhaka, Bangladesh. NIFID

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/nifid-start-initiative-malmo - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The book entitled "Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities" has recently been published. The book is edited by Anwar Alam, Department of International Relations, Zirve University, Gaziantep (Turkey) and Konrad Pedziwiatr, Department of European Studies, Cracow University

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/book-muslim-minorities-europe-and-india - 2026-09-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. SASNET announces two travel grants for Lund University students to the Centre for Research & Education for Social Transformation (CREST) in Kerala, India. These grants are dedicated for students on BA, MA or PhD level who are planning to do fieldwork in South Asia during 2017. The field work can be conducted elsewhere

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/travel-grants-lund-university-students-crest-kerala - 2026-09-11