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Workshop in London, 10–12 October, 2019, at Aga Khan Centre Participants: Jonas OtterbeckMaria Frederika MalmströmCristina Moreno AlmeidaTom RiceSama AlshaibiMichael FrishkopfRobert SaundersDeborah KapchanAnja FranckDarci SprengelAnne-Mette KirkegaardMartin SköldMarc MichaelZiad FahmyMark LeVineTed SwedenburgShayna SilversteinStefan Williamson FaMichael Muhammad KnightTorsten JansonGabriella Calch

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/touching-sound-passion-and-global-politics - 2025-12-19

Tisdag 12 november kl. 18-19 Pufendorfinstitutet, Biskopsgatan 3 Medverkande: Olof Heilo, Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul Samuel Rubenson, Centrum för Teologi och Religionsvetenskap Olof Heilo (red.), Vägar till Bysans, Norma förlag 2019142 sidor, med 50 kartor och illustrationerBokbeställning: www.artos.se2019-10-17

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/vagar-till-bysans-bokpresentation-med-anforanden - 2025-12-19

Associate Professor Varuzhan Geghamyan is visiting Lund University. He works at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University. He is a Turkey scholar, but the Faculty has three departments: for Turkish, Arabic and Iranian studies. While Professor Varuzhan Geghamyan is here he will give three public lectures:Monday, October 21, at 12:00 noon at CMES: Personality cults in Modern Turkey

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-turkey-and-armenia-professor-varuzhan-geghamyan - 2025-12-19

Three experts on Turkey from CMES will visit Stockholm and SUITS, the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies, in December. The researchers are:Pinar DincOmer TuranSpyros Sofos2019-10-15

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-suits-stockholm - 2025-12-19

The “Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey” workshop aims to shed light on the patterns and mechanisms of inequalities and their impact on societal conflicts in Turkey. We invite papers that tackle the issues of inequalities, peace, and conflict in Turkey from a broader perspective, including social, economic, political and spatial features. Date and place: 9-10 December 2019 Stockholm Univer

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-workshop-inequalities-peace-and-conflict-turkey - 2025-12-19

This week on the brand new blog CMES researchers Pinar Dinc, Orwa Ajjoub and Spyros A. Sofos contribute texts that attempt to shed light on the questions arising from the increased volatility in the region. Dinc and Sofos provide their takes on the implications of the US military withdrawal from Northern and Northeastern Syria in Syria, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also k

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-blog - 2025-12-19

USA:s tillbakaträdande från de kurdiska områdena i norra Syrien och Turkiets invasion där gör kurderna, araberna, turkmenerna, assyrierna, armenierna och andra som bor i regionen väldigt sårbara. Det menar Turkietexperten Pinar Dinc, på Centrum för Mellanösternstudier vid Lunds universitet.   Read the full article here 2019-10-11

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/svart-lage-i-rojava-efter-turkiets-attack-cmes-pinar-dinc-rojava-situation-swedish - 2025-12-19

A talk "Personality cults in Modern Turkey: narratives, discourses and authoritarian politics", two films: "Seven Doors" (also on Turkey) and "No way to freedom: from Western Sahara to Gaza" plus the Conversation Series: Passion and politics. These are some of the events, hosted by CMES, that will take place during the fall.Stay tuned on our Facebook-page for the latest news.2019-10-07

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2025-12-19

Research in suspicious fields can be transformative in both amplifying and destructive ways. "Conducting fieldwork for a project about the materiality of suspicion in today's Egypt sounds topical, relevant and exciting, but fear can touch researchers as well as their subjects. In this essay, I work to understand my embodied experience in the field in a broader perspective by exploring how suspicio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/infused-suspicion-transformation-anthropologist-body-new-article-maria-frederika-malmstrom - 2025-12-19

How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global p

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2025-12-19

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Read the newsletter hereSubscribe here2019-09-12

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-3-september-2019 - 2025-12-19

CMES researcher Dalia Abdelhady recently published a book chapter on “Framing the Syrian Refugee: Divergent Discourses in Three National Contexts.” inThe Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, edited by Cecilia Menjivar, Marie Ruiz, and Emmanuel Ness, Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Handbook of Migration Crises runs the gamut of situations that are constructed as crises in migration contexts ar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/framing-syrian-refugee-divergent-discourses-three-national-contexts - 2025-12-19

Dalia Abdelhady has presented a paper on “Perception of Educational Inequality among the Children of Immigrants in Three Systems” (with Amy Lutz from Syracuse University) at the European Sociological Association meeting in Manchester, UK, August 20-23, 2019. She also presented a paper on “Perception of Social Mobility among the Children of Immigrants in the US, France and Germany” (with Amy Lutz f

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2025-12-19

CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour has just published a chapter in the report "Rebuilding Syria: The Middle East's Next Power Game? The chapter is published 09/09/2019 by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies in their report, which is found here: REBUILDING SYRIA The Middle East’s Next Power Game?Syrians Abroad: The Future of Refugees and Their Return HomeThe return of

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2025-12-19

CMES researcher Maria F Malmström is holding a book talk at University of Oxford. About the book: "This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the aftermath of these events." Organized by the Global South Ethnographies: Livelihoods, Contestation, and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2025-12-19

CMES affiliated researcher Marta Kolankiewicz just published a book about anti-Muslim violence in Sweden. "With in-depth analyses of cases of anti-Muslim violence in Sweden―a mosque fire, hate speech and of a series of assaults―Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial sheds light on issues central for understanding the ways in which racism is approached in court. It also illustrates the different forms that Is

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/anti-muslim-racism-trial-muslims-swedish-judiciary-and-possibility-justice-routledge-research-race - 2025-12-19

CMES researcher Madeleine Kassab recently presented her work at the conference IAVS_AISV-2019 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL SEMIOTICS: VISUAL SEMIOTICS GOES COGNITIVE at Lund University. What can cognitive semiotics bring to visual semiotics, and vice-versa? Visual semiotics has, most of the time, been concerned with the interpretation and modelling of visual (and in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-2011-2013-comparison-between-al-jazeera-and-al-manar-channels - 2025-12-19

CMES researcher Pınar Dinç is presenting at a conference in Geneva called "Place names in Turkey: Naming, Erasing, Re-naming: Political Uses of Place Names in Turkey". The politics of place naming in Turkey have historically been dense and controversial. Naming and/or renaming places are political acts that affect daily lives, and often happen in conflictual terms and temporalities, through offici

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/dersim-anatolian-high-school-ataturk-neighborhood-tunceli-naming-renaming-and-contingent-openings - 2025-12-19

CMES affiliated researcher Josepha Wessels will be presenting her work at the conference: "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring". The conference is hosted by the project Mediatized diaspora (MEDIASP): Contentious Politics among Arab Media Users in Europe, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Abstract

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/artistic-expression-regime-critical-activism-and-social-networks-syrians-denmark-and-sweden - 2025-12-19

CMES researcher Mohammed Almahfali, is presenting his work at the conference "Regime-Critical Media and Arab Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities post-Arab Spring" in Copenhagen. Mohammed´s presentation: "Discourse of Yemeni TV broadcasters and the Dilemma of Regime Criticism, 2015-2019""The discourse of the Yemeni TV broadcasters has been undergoing major changes since the Arab Spring in 2011.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/discourse-yemeni-tv-broadcasters-and-dilemma-regime-criticism-2015-2019 - 2025-12-19