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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The UN Migration's first online talk show to break all the barriers and get you closer to the different aspects and opportunities of migration. Watch Hijrah Talk's 4th episode to learn more about Successful Cultural Integration Stories with Dalia Abdelhady.In English with Arabic subtitles.2019-10-25
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An important barrier to interdisciplinary work is the difficulty to communicate over disciplinary boundaries. The seminar series on concepts, of which the seminar on Capacity Building is the fourth, is intended to create a platform for the discussions needed to overcome such barriers. There will be interdisciplinary p
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/capacity-building-research-concept - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Embassy of Canada to Sweden and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University are pleased to invite you to a seminar on Leaving Radical Society: Processes of Exit from Violent Extremism. In recent years, focus on the incidence of radicalization leading to violence in society has increased throughout Eur
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/leaving-radical-society-processes-exit-violent-extremism - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Si
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/touching-sound-passion-and-global-politics - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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.se201
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/vagar-till-bysans-bokpresentation-med-anforanden - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 lectu
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lectures-turkey-and-armenia-professor-varuzhan-geghamyan - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, po
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/call-papers-workshop-inequalities-peace-and-conflict-turkey - 2026-04-27
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 - 2026-04-27
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 - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 th
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/updated-list-fall-events-cmes - 2026-04-27
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
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 run
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/framing-syrian-refugee-divergent-discourses-three-national-contexts - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/perception-educational-inequality-among-children-immigrants-three-systems - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Powe
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/syrians-abroad-future-refugees-and-their-return-home - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 even
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/streets-are-talking-me-book-talk - 2026-04-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 whi
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
