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A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Botany and Zoology has been awarded every three years since 1935 to Swedish researchers whom the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund considers to be well deserving. In 2023, the prize is awarded to Henrik Smith for his research e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-henrik-smith-receives-rosen-linnaeus-prize-zoology - 2026-04-27

A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, was finalised last week. Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's contact person for the IPCC, participated digitally and comments the decisions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-deal-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-systems - 2026-04-27

Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Katarina Hedlund, professor at the Department of Biology, has been the Deputy Director of CEC for many years. She has also been Director of studies at CEC. “It will be easy to take over such a well-run organizati

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/katarina-hedlund-new-director-cec - 2026-04-27

On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you do

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2026-04-27

With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the creation of a method capable of generating annual maps of tree diversity, his aim is to assist in forest management and decision-making regarding both climate and biodiversity strategies. Funded by the Swedish National S

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES guest researcher Defne Kadıoğlu Polat just published a chapter in the book "German-Turkish Relations Revisited: The European Dimension, Domestic and Foreign Politics and Transnational Dynamics". "In recent years, dialogue between Germany and Turkey has increasingly become subject to political, academic and public

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/creatively-displaced-impact-neoliberal-urban-policies-immigrants-turkey-berlin - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Svante Lundgren is a researcher at CMES. Two of his popular science books have recently been published in translation. Assyrierna - från Nineve till Södertälje (2014) have been published in Dutch: De Assyriërs - van Nineveh naar Enschede (AJN Press). It has previously appeared in German (2015) and English (2016) trans

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/books-assyrians-svante-lundgren-translated - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Pinar Dinc, researcher from from CMES, tomorrow holds a lecture at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Being a mountainous region with numerous bodies of water, valleys, and grottos, Dersim or Tunceli was a shelter for non-dominant groups (non-Sunni and non-Turkish) for centuries. Both the Ottoman Empire and t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/art-government-reading-turkeys-raison-detat-through-novels-and-short-stories-dersim-1937-38 - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Next week CMES affiliated researcher Kholoud Mansour is speaking at an event that marks the launch of policy papers by the Syrian Women’s Political Movement (SWPM) on an engendered constitution, the return of displaced Syrians and reconstruction. The papers relied on the findings of a series of national consultations

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/feminist-perspective-syrian-political-process-return-displaced-syrians-reconstruction-and-engendered - 2026-04-27

From Jabhat al-Nusra to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, what has changed? CMES Researcher Orwa Ajjoub has written an article examining the history of one of the most significant opposition groups in the Syrian conflict, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). In it, he traces the group through four main phases: during the first phase, which lasted between January 2012 and April 2013, the group emerged under the name

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-article-history-hts - 2026-04-27

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a post-doc that will be part of the research area regarding groundwater as a natural resource in the arid Middle East and how the use of satellite data and advanced machine-learning algorithms can be used to solve complex water supply problems. The groundwater is rapidly dwindling as a natural resource in the Middle East. At the same time popula

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-centre-middle-eastern-studies - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Welcome to our newsletter about research on the Middle East at Lund University! The Middle East is an area that affects us all. It is the cradle of human civilization with a recent conflict-ridden history, and aspiring democracy movements that are of global concern. Its immense strategic importance and strong role in

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-1-may-2019 - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. CMES, The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and a new platform called ip-ACIRR* are working to promote rights for people with disabilities in contexts of armed conflicts and for inclusive post-conflict society building. When CMES researcher Helen Avery was in Sulaimaniya in Kurdistan, she

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cooperation-initiative-around-people-disabilities-conflict-areas - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis-presentation-sol-sprak-och-litteraturcentrum-lund-university - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Madeleine Kassab is a guest researcher at Middle Eastern Studies. Her research about The Media Coverage of the Syrian Crisis analyses the media coverage of the Syrian crisis from 2011 to 2013. It is a comparison between Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar channels through quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Syrian crisis i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-coverage-syrian-crisis - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Monday the 27th of May, CMES affiliated researcher, the Syria scholar and ethnographic filmmaker Joshka Wessels will present her upcoming book which will be published by Bloomsbury/IB Tauris entitled "Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution". Joshka's book is the world's first history of Syrian D

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/worlds-first-history-syrian-documentary-cinema - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. This year's Graduate Student Conference was entitled "The Middle East in the Contemporary World". The conference is as an opportunity for students at CMES and more widely at Lund University to present and discuss their own research and ideas. One of the presentations was The Hurdles of the Patriarchy – Women and Polit

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/women-and-politics-lebanon-one-many-interesting-presentations-graduate-student-conference - 2026-04-27

CMES researchers Helen Avery and Spyros Sofos are working to build a university-wide post-conflict research network with strong and diverse international connections. This brings together scholars and practitioners working on reconstruction of social fabrics and physical/technical infrastructure, institution building, rehabilitation of populations, memory, justice and reconciliation, transitions t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/university-wide-post-conflict-research-network - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Helen Avery's work concerns sustainability transitions in the Middle East, with a particular focus on strategies for environmentally and socially sustainable society building. Research interests include organisational development, creativity and transdisciplinarity in higher education, internationalisation strategies,

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-helen-avery-meeting-research-colleagues-kurdistan - 2026-04-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "The following include some of the most innovative approaches to Islamic State to date, and promise a wave of fresh voices on one of the most important challenges to global order." Daesh media production is complex, multifaceted, and is arguably a representational microcosm of the organization as a whole. Claiming uni

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/where-media-meets-statecraft-daesh-promotion-governmental-competence-through-its-media-new-essay - 2026-04-27