Published 5 April 2024 CMES visiting scholar Dalia Dassa Kaye has written an article in Foreign Affairs. IntroductionOn April 1, Israel launched its latest attack on Iran in the two countries’ ongoing shadow war, with an airstrike that flattened a section of Iran’s embassy complex in Damascus and reportedly killed at least 12 people. Among the dead was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who headed Iran’s milit

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/israels-campaign-against-iranian-targets-could-backfire - 2025-04-19

Published 10 April 2024 On 8-9 April, CMES organized a policy-research dialogue entitled "Exploring Europe’s Changing Perceptions and Policies Towards Iran" with international experts and policymakers. The workshop explored a broad set of themes, such as Iran's nuclear program and the nuclear agreement, the Mahsa Amini protests and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. These issues were discussed in relat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-policy-research-dialogue-exploring-europes-changing-perceptions-and-policies-towards-iran - 2025-04-19

By lina [dot] eklund [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Lina Eklund and Hakim Abdi) - published 12 April 2024 Satellite images of Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Israel, from 1984 and 2020 (Captured by Landsat/Copernicus) This Regional Outlook focuses on the role of satellite imagery in shaping our understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the physical damage it has caused the la

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-regional-outlook-monitoring-israels-destruction-gaza-space - 2025-04-19

Published 16 April 2024 On 11-12 April, CMES hosted a workshop entitled "On the Edge - Post-Conflict Political Generations of Women and Youth Activists in the ‘Second Wave’ of the Arab Spring" with international scholars. The workshop explored the mass popular mobilizations calling for radical regime change in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq in 2019, which were billed the ‘Second Wave’ of the Ar

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-women-and-youth-activists-second-wave-arab-spring - 2025-04-19

Published 17 April 2024 On Friday 12 April, CMES researcher Filippo Verre participated in the radio program "Il Mondo alla Radio" (Eng. translation: "The World on the Radio") on Vatican Radio. Vatican Radio is part of the channel Vatican News, which is the official radio channel of the Vatican State. In the interview, Filippo spoke about the role of water policy in the Middle East as a tool to fos

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/water-policy-middle-east - 2025-04-19

Published 19 April 2024 Apply by 31 May 2024. CMES Workshop Proposals (Academic Year 2024-2025)The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops and higher public research seminars with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area (SRA): Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshop per year and encourages interdis

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/open-cmes-calls-workshops-and-travel - 2025-04-19

Published 23 April 2024 CMES Director met with Morocco’s Ambassador Karim Medrek. On 23 April Morocco’s Ambassador to Sweden Karim Medrek visited Lund University. CMES Director Karin Aggestam briefed the Ambassador about the Strategic Research Area the Middle East in the Contemporary World and discussed opportunities for research and student exchanges.

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/moroccos-ambassador-visits-lund-university - 2025-04-19

Published 23 April 2024 The Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Lund University has contributed to the independent review report of UNRWA. The report has evaluated to what extent UNRWA adheres to the humanitarian principle of neutrality. The report recognizes the complexity of UNRWA’s mandate within a highly political context.  It makes a series of recommendations that the Agency commits to act upon, na

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/independent-review-report-unrwa-released - 2025-04-19

Published 29 April 2024 CMES visiting scholar Dalia Dassa Kaye has co-authored an article published in Foreign Affairs. The article, "Is an Anti-Iran Alliance Emerging in the Middle East? The Limits of Cooperation Between Israel and the Arab States", was co-written by Dalia Dassa Kaye and Sanam Vakil (Chatham House's MENA Programme). It was published in Foreign Affairs on 26 April 2024.Introductio

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/limits-cooperation-between-israel-and-arab-states - 2025-04-19

Published 3 May 2024 Read the new CMES Newsletter about upcoming events and recent research activities and publications. The CMES Newsletter provides an up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research, activities and events at Lund University and beyond. The Newsletter includes a message from the Director, latest research news, upcoming events and recent publications by CMES scholars.Read the Newsl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-44 - 2025-04-19

By ulrika [dot] oredsson [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ulrika Oredsson (English translation by Linda Eitrem Holmgren)) - published 6 May 2024 Damage in Gaza Strip Oct. 2023 (Photo: Wafa/Wikimedia Commons) The war in Gaza is testing alliances and shaking up politics, both globally and regionally. What does this mean for the West's relationship with the Middle East? How are inter-regional dy

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/geopolitics-and-diplomacy-wake-gaza-war - 2025-04-19

Published 7 May 2024 Photo: Salim Alsabbagh Join us on 30 May for an evening with Samir Abu Eid at the Department of Political Science! Welcome to an evening with Samir Abu Eid, Honorary Doctor in Social Science at Lund University and Foreign Correspondent in the Middle East for Swedish Public Service Television (SVT).The event is chaired by Karin Aggestam, CMES DIrector and Professor of Political

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-public-seminar-samir-abu-eid-inside-israeli-palestinian-conflict - 2025-04-19

Published 15 May 2024 Watch an interview with CMES Director Karin Aggestam In this episode of the "Distinguished Diplomatic Interviews" series, the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy hosts Dr Karin Aggestam, Professor of Political Science. She is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies and Scientific Coordinator of the Strategic Research Area (SRA) Middle East in the Contempor

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/protracted-conflict-negotiation-and-water-cooperation-middle-east - 2025-04-19

Published 16 May 2024 CMES researcher Heba Taha has published a chapter about Palestinians in Israeli international aid imaginaries. The chapter, "Dislocating Development: Palestinians in Israeli International Aid Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1960s", was published in the edited volume Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (IB T

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/palestinians-israeli-international-aid - 2025-04-19

Published 17 May 2024 CMES researcher Svante Lundgren has authored an article in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 11. The article "Assyrians and Kurds in Sweden - A Strained Relation" was published in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 11.Read more about the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies Svante Lundgren

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/assyrians-and-kurds-sweden - 2025-04-19

Published 20 May 2024 Source: Shahi et al. 2024 CMES researcher Hossein Hashemi has co-authored an article published in the journal Chemosphere. The article, "Transport and retention of functionalized graphene oxide nanoparticles in saturated/unsaturated porous media: Effects of flow velocity, ionic strength and initial particle concentration", was authored by Mahsa Shahi (Lund University), Mohamm

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/nanoparticle-infection-soils-and-groundwater - 2025-04-19

Published 21 May 2024 CMES researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article published in the journal Diversity. The article "Climate-Change-Driven Shifts in Aegilops tauschii Species Distribution: Implications for Food Security and Ecological Conservation" was co-authored by Shirin Mahmoodi (Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center), Mohammad Jaffar Aghaei (National Plant

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/climate-change-and-plant-diversity-iran - 2025-04-19

Published 22 May 2024 CMES researcher Heba Taha has co-authored an article in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. The article, "The Atomic Future: Technology, Labor and World Peace in the Thought of ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath", was co-authored by Heba Taha and Pelle Valentin Olsen. AbstractIn 1946, one year after the atomic bombings of Japan, Palestinian thinker ʿAli Rashid Shaʿath (190

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/atomic-future-arab-world - 2025-04-19

Published 30 May 2024 Figure from Mousavi et al. 2024 CMES researcher Amir Naghibi has co-authored an article published in the Journal of Water and Climate Change. The article "Assessing the impact of global carbon dioxide changes on atmospheric fluctuations in Iran through satellite data analysis" was co-authored by Seyed-Mohsen Mousavi (Shahid Beheshti University), Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan (Shah

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-iran - 2025-04-19

Published 28 May 2024 CMES Director Karin Aggestam briefs the committee members The Foreign Affairs Committee from the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) visited Lund University on May 27. CMES Director Karin Aggestam was invited to give a presentation about CMES and Middle East research at Lund University. The committee was also briefed on several other issues at Lund University, ranging from coopera

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/swedish-foreign-affairs-committee-visits-lund-university - 2025-04-19