| Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies | |
| Established: | 2007 |
| Academic Staff: | 20 [1] |
| Campus Type: | Urban |
| Native Name: | Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien |
| Director: | Bianca Devos |
| Affiliation: | University of Tunis (through Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb) |
The Center for Near And Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) is a research center focused on the MENA Region at the University of Marburg in Marburg, Germany.
Philipps University of Marburg has conducted research on the Middle East since the late 19th century. The Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies was established in 2007 to consolidate and advance research on the Near and Middle East, both past and present.
Housed in a renovated historic building, the CNMS has seven professorial chairs. Its staff conducts research across contemporary social and economic issues, as well as philology, history, Islamic cultural studies and linguistic studies.[2]
The CNMS publishes Middle East - Topics & Arguments (META), a biannual peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open access journal. It has been supported by the German Research Foundation's "Wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften" program since July 2012.[3]