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CMES Seminar: Harvesting wind, stirring sands: the expansion of renewable energy frontiers, local resistance, and the European academic gaze on green extractivism in West Asia and North Africa.

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 2d

CMES seminar this Thursday at 10 am (please note the time). Title: Harvesting wind, stirring sands: the expansion of renewable energy frontiers, local resistance, and the European academic gaze on green extractivism in West Asia and North Africa.

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

Lund University. Presentation by Yahia Mahmoud, Human Geography, Lund University.

Avgörande dygn för fredsavtalet om Gaza - Godmorgon världen

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Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 3d

CMES Director Karin Aggestam discusses Trump’s plan for Gaza and the prospects for a sustainable peace in the program God morgon världen, Swedish Radio (In Swedish).

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/avgo...

Just nu råder en bräcklig vapenvila i Gaza. Nödhjälpen ska börja levereras, gisslan ska släppas och de decennier av återuppbyggnad som väntar ska kunna ...

Trumps fredsplan klarar första steget – kommer den hålla? - Studio Ett

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 3d

CMES Director Karin Aggestam discusses Trump’s peace plan together with Ambassador Anders Lidén in Studio Ett, Swedish Radio ( In swedish).
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/trum...

I dag undertecknades första steget i fredsavtalet mellan Israel och Hamas.Vad blir viktigast framåt för att nya steg ska kunna tas i fredsprocessen?Hör ...

Read the latest CMES newsletter!

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 14d

Read the latest CMES Newsletter about recent research activities and new publications: www.cmes.lu.se/article/read...

🟢 Message From the Director
🟢 Latest Research News
🟢 Upcoming Events
🟢 Recent Publications by CMES Scholars

Lund University. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies has commenced the autumn semester with a strong program of academic and outreach activities. The semester began with the launch of the n...

Fredsplanen för Gaza presenterad – kommer Hamas säga ja? - Studio Ett

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 15d

CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom analyses prospects for Trump’s new peace plan for Gaza in Sveriges Radio’s Studio Ett. (In Swedish).
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fred...

USA och Israel har enats om 20-punktsfredsplan för Gaza. Men det är fortfarande oklart hur Hamas ställer sig till planen.Idag möts företrädare för ...

CMES Seminar: Bringing in the Other Islamists - Comparing Arab Shia and Sunni Islamism(s) in the Middle East.

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 16d

Bringing in the Other Islamists – Comparing Arab Shia and Sunni Islamism(s) in the Middle East.

CMES seminar this Thursday at 13:15, Finngatan 16, Lund.

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

Lund University. Despite being rich and nuanced, the field of Islamism studies has traditionally been narrow, in that it has primarily drawn from a Sunni-centric case universe. In recent years, growin...

Extreme Loss – new project receives seed funding to explore farming futures in a changing climate

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 17d

CMES launches Extreme-Loss, a new project on climate, biodiversity, and agricultural livelihoods 🌍 Funded with start-up support from Lund University. Read our interview with Associate Prof. Pinar Dinc.
www.cmes.lu.se/article/extr...

Lund University. The project brings together expertise in political science, water resources engineering, climate science, and geography to explore how droughts, floods, and biodiversity loss affect a...

Strategies for present and future bubbler irrigation system management in a Saharan date palm oasis under climate change

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Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 22d

New article from CMES - Strategies for present and future bubbler irrigation system management in a Saharan date palm oasis under climate change.

Read full article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Date palm oases in North Africa have historically supported agriculture through indigenous irrigation techniques such as foggaras and tabias, made pos…

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Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 22d

CMES director Karin Aggestam analyses the recent recognition of Palestine and the UN High Level Week in Sveriges Radio’s Studio Ett. www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/darf...

Därför har så många länder erkänt Palestina som stat inför FN-mötet - Studio Ett

Inför FN:s toppmöte om situationen i Gazaremsan har många länder, bland annat Australien, Storbritannien, Kanada och Frankrike erkänt Palestina som självständig ...

ECO-Syria Workshop Explores Environmental Politics and Civil Society in Post-Conflict Syria

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 23d

The ECO-Syria research team at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, convened its second and final workshop Titled “ECO-Syria: Exploring Conflict–Environment Interactions for Sustainable Development and Conservation”.

Read more here: www.cmes.lu.se/article/eco-...

Lund University. The two-day workshop brought together a focused cohort of civil society organisations active in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), regional exp...

Visning av Agonism and ethnography in Palestine

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 23d

CMES researcher Anne Lene Stein has recently published an research article in Babylon – Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier.

Read full article here: journals.uio.no/babylon/arti...

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Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 28d

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
unu.edu/inweh/collec...

From Conflict to Peace: The PKK’s Disarmament and the Green Potential of Peace in the Middle East

Integrating Green Transitional Justice into the PKK–Türkiye peace process can address ecological harms of war and foster lasting, inclusive peace.

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Är en rättvis fred möjlig mellan Israel och Palestina? | Forskning & Framsteg

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · 29d

CMES director Karin Aggestam has recently published an article in Forskning och Framsteg. She presents the article at a public event on justice at Playhouse Theatre, Stockholm, 6 October, 7pm.
Read the article (in Swedish): fof.se/artikel/ar-e...

Konflikten mellan Israel och Palestina beskrivs ofta som en kamp om territorium, men frågor om identitet, rättvisa och legitimitet har också avgörande betydelse för dynamiken. …

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Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Sep 16

CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom contributed with analysis regarding the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City on Sveriges Radio’s P1 Morning on September 16. (In Swedish)
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/idf-...

Israels försvarsminister: ”Gaza brinner” - P1 Morgon

Nu bekräftar Israels militär, IDF, och premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu att Israel har inlett en utökad offensiv i Gaza stad. Det här rapporterar flera ...

Israel pressas på svar om dödade journalister - Radiokorrespondenterna Mellanöstern

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Sep 16

CMES researcher has recently published an article on “Developing Rainfall Spatial Distribution for Using Geostatistical Gap-Filled Terrestrial Gauge Records in the Mountainous Region of Oman.”
Read more here:

www.cmes.lu.se/article/deve...

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Sep 15

Read the latest CMES Newsletter!
cmes.ungapped.io/Issues/c6153...
Read the director’s message, explore the latest research news, discover upcoming events, and browse our recent publications.

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Aug 13

Researcher Lisa Strömbom participates in the podcast Radiokorrespondenterna Mellanöstern on Sveriges Radio. She comments together with SR's correspondent Lina Malers on Israel's deadly attacks on journalists in Gaza, as well as Israel's plans to take over Gaza City.

Nu vill Israel ta kontroll över Gaza stad trots massiv kritik från omvärlden. Och FN kräver oberoende utredning efter dödandet av al Jazeera-journalister. ...

Benjamin Netanyahu uppges vilja ockupera hela Gaza – vad skulle det innebära? - Studio Ett

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Aug 7

On Tuesday, CMES researcher Lisa Strömbom took part in Sveriges Radio's Studio Ett. She commented on the information that Israel may expand its offensive to cover all of Gaza and how this can be understood in relation to US Middle East policy.

Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu uppges ha fattat beslut om en fullständig ockupation av Gazaremsan, inklusive militära insatser i områden där ...

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Jul 4

CMES researcher Hebatalla Taha was recently interviewed in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan about US bombings in Iran and the future of nuclear weapons in the Middle East: www.sydsvenskan.se/2025-06-27/l...
#cmes #lunduniversity #lundsuniversitet #sydsvenskan #iran #middleeast #mena #nuclearweapons

Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) @cmeslund.bsky.social · Jul 3

CMES Director Karin Aggestam participates in this week's episode of Radiokorrespondenterna Mellanöstern: www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/tva-...
#cmes #lundsuniversitet #lunduniversity #sverigesradio #sr #mellanöstern #middleeast #israel #iran #gaza #internationalpolitics #politicalscience