Cherine Hussein is a guest researcher at CMES and has published a chapter in an edited book collection on Palestine. Her chapter is called "The Single State Solution: Vision, Obstacles and Dilemmas of a Re-Emergent Alternative in Flux". The book title is “From the River to the Sea- Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of "Peace" "From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘Peac

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/single-state-solution-vision-obstacles-and-dilemmas-re-emergent-alternative-flux - 2025-08-25

Måste alla verkligen ta i hand i Sverige? Ska vi ha skolavslutning i kyrkan eller separata badtider i simhallar? Bör huvuddukar och heltäckande plagg för kvinnor förbjudas? Det finns fortfarande möjlighet att anmäla sig till sommarkursen som tar sin utgångspunkt i några av de senaste årens hetaste debatter om religion och ställer frågor kring var gränsen går för samförstånd. Lärare är islamologen

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/sen-anmalan-sommarkurs-nar-gud-tar-plats-dagsaktuella-debatter-om-religion-course-swedish - 2025-08-25

CMES arrangerar tre seminarier om Mellanöstern i år: 1 Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten. Vad händer nu? 2 Svenska kommuner efter IS - att arbeta med återvändare och förhindra nya resande till terrorgrupper. 3 Kultur, religion, heder och klan. Hur förstår vi Mellanöstern? Mellanöstern bortom Islamiska staten. Vad händer nu? 3/7 2019 10:00 - 11:00 Händelseutvecklingen i Mellanöstern har varit om

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-almedalen-2019-swedish - 2025-08-25

One million people in the north part of Iran are confronting serious problems with accessibility to water, due to salinization. The guest researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern studies Alireza Motevalli is now working with a study in order to map the vulnerability in the area. Alireza Motevalli Proper management of groundwater resources plays an important role in securing water availability f

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/coastal-areas-are-facing-huge-risk-water-salinization - 2025-08-25

Arab spring, the abuse of women and a visit to Carthage. The CMES´master students study trip to Tunis was full of meetings and here you can read about some of them. Mrs. Ibtihel Abdellatif, Truth and Dignity Commission On Friday morning we met Mrs Abdellatif, who set up Nissaat Tunisiet, an organisation supporting women after the revolution, and a member of Tunisia’s truth and dignity commission.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/master-students-study-trip-tunis - 2025-08-25

Teaching students at Armenia's oldest and foremost university is a grateful and rewarding task. Svante Lundgren from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies speaks of experience. Svante Lundgren Yerevan State University is Armenia's oldest, largest and most prestigious university. It turns one hundred years this year and was thus founded during the short time, 1918-20, when the country was independe

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-armenia-very-much-appreciated - 2025-08-25

Edinburgh University are launching a free online course "The Sharia and Islamic Law: An Introduction". The course brings together a range of academic to help learners think critically about religious law and its many diverse manifestations in different times and places.  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/free-online-course-sharia-and-islamic-law-introduction - 2025-08-25

The documentary film "Reformisten – den kvindelige imam" is about Sherin Khankan, Scandinavia's first female imam. In 2016, Sherin Mariam opened the Mosque in Copenhagen, one of the first mosques in Europe led by women. They struggle for a reading of the Quran marked by tolerance, equality and Islamic feminism. The film has attracted a lot of attention and started this year's Copenhagen Internatio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/filmreformisten-den-kvindelige-imam-wednesday-may-8 - 2025-08-25

Congratulations to Nazanin Shahrokni, Assistant Professor at Syracuse Univesrsity and Guest Researcher at CMES for this academic year for the completion of her book Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran, an outline of which she presented in a CMES public lecture back in February in a packed lecture hall. Women in Place offers a gripping inquiry into gender segregation policies

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-place-politics-gender-segregation-iran - 2025-08-25

Fanny Christou and Spyros Sofos have just had a chapter published in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture, published in association with the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Their contribution in the book focuses on the “Physical and Virtual Spaces Among the Palestinian Diaspora in Malmo” and is based on extensive fieldwork in Skåne and elsew

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/physical-and-virtual-spaces-among-palestinian-diaspora-malmo - 2025-08-25

The 14th international SIEF* congress´s theme is Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World draws upon both the ethnological explorations of human life and its continual change as well as the transforming, yet constant, Camino. Maria Frederika Malmström (Lund University/Columbia University) will participate in the congress with a paper on how political active Cairenes are navigating suspici

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/navigating-ocean-suspicion-affective-politics-and-materiality-cairo - 2025-08-25

Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström in conversation with Jonas Otterbeck in London. Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström is in London hosted by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (ISMC), to give a talk entitled "Urban Bodies in the Cityscape of Cairo: Passion, Despair and Entanglement". The talk, a conversation with Jona

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/urban-bodies-cityscape-cairo-passion-despair-and-entanglement - 2025-08-25

Ever since the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx in New York, Islam has been a key feature of the music. Islamologist Anders Ackfeldt at Lund University analyzes several examples of this in his thesis Islamic Semiotic Resources in US Hip-Hop Culture. The hip-hop has, and still is, giving voice to weak and vulnerable groups in American society. And many of today's religious expressions are popula

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/islam-resource-struggle-american-hip-hop - 2025-08-25

The students had the opportunity to learn more about matters such as: History of the Persian language and some common phrases (Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi), Islam and the young people in the Middle East (Anders Ackfeldt) Is populism a European fruit? The experience of the Middle East (Spyros Sofos) Has peace a chance in the Middle East? (Svante Lundgren). Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi Ellen Björklund studies

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/katedralskolans-history-class-had-full-day-lectures-about-middle-east - 2025-08-25

We are pleased to announce the dates of this year's Graduate Student Conference. CMES is pleased to announce this year's Graduate Student Conference, entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is intended as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to present and discuss their own research and ideas. Papers will be organised into panels of 3-

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-graduate-student-conference - 2025-08-25

Middle East Forum Newsletter #10 April, 2020 Middle Eastern research news from Lund University. Words from the directorThe covid-19 has turned teaching, research, and ordinary university activities upside down. Still, we do not see the end of it. But the most important lesson to be learned is to adapt to future pandemics and increase resilience of society and university tasks. Indeed, technology s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-10-april-2020 - 2025-08-25

CMES welcomes affiliated researcher Orwa Ajjoub! CMES is pleased to welcome orwa [dot] ajjoub [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Orwa Ajjoub), who will be working on a report discussing the future of Islamic State. Orwa's research focuses on the theology of Salafi-Jihadi groups. He recently graduated with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from CMES, with a thesis discussing the theological aspects of the s

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/op-eds-salafi-jihadi-groups - 2025-08-25

On Wednesday 20th of March, CMES staff and students came together to celebrate Nowruz. Nowruz, the Persian New Year Celebration The celebration was organised by Mehdi Ghavideldostkohi as part of CMES' Persian Language instruction, and included staff and students showing off their cooking with a pot-luck dinner including Iranian favourites ash reshteh, fesenjan, and ghormeh sabzi.  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-celebrates-nowruz - 2025-08-25

Since its launch by Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law back in 2016, the festival has become a tradition which we have consistently supported. This year, we at CMES, support the festival with our MA in Middle Eastern Studies students playing an active role as student ambassadors and through the Centre hosting a Q&A session between Johanna Caminati Engström (LUMID) and

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-proud-be-swedish-human-rights-film-festival-partner-organization-once-more-year - 2025-08-25

CMES Associate Professor Maria Frederika Malmström's upcoming work, published by University of California Press. The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi's Egypt "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 eve

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-affective-fragments-sisis-egypt - 2025-08-25