Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies

The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies is a learned society formed in 1989 that is devoted to the promotion of the academic study of the Middle East in the Nordic region. The Society arranges an academic conference on Middle Eastern studies, held every three years in a different Nordic country. The 2016 conference was hosted by the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. The current chairperson of the Nordic Society is Leif Stenberg, who is director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University.