March 23, 7 pm Swedish time at University of Virginia Register for the book talk here   About the book This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explore

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/maria-f-malmstrom-giving-online-talk-about-her-latest-book-streets-are-talking-me - 2025-08-23

Photo: Christian Wiediger on Unsplash During the pandemic mediators and conflict parties have had to interact, discuss and even negotiate via computer screens. Women negotiators have benefited from this and describe how they experienced the virtual medium as a more equal space since it is more difficult for men to dominate with body language and appearance, for example. This is described by Isabel

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/virtual-meetings-more-equal-space-women-peace-negotiators - 2025-08-23

“Yemen’s Higher Education Crisis” – the second webinar of the IIE-SRF Dialogues series – will focus on Yemen’s higher education emergency and its impact on university professionals. Scholars from Yemen who have directly experienced the crisis will share their stories and offer insights on the unique challenges facing Yemeni women academics. March 25, 4 PM Swedish time. It will feature: James Robin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/yemens-higher-education-crisis-cmes-mohammed-almahfali-one-speakers - 2025-08-23

Thursday this week Kaveh Madani is participating in a CMES Research seminar on "Rethinking Environmental Security: The Lessons Learned from the Middle East". The attention to the topic of environmental security is on the rise in the 4D (Development, Disaster, Diplomacy and Defense) circles. We have enough evidence to have no doubt that the unsustainable use of natural resources, environmental degr

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-quick-questions-kaveh-madani-yale-university - 2025-08-23

During the First World War the Assyrians suffered great losses as a result of massacres and deportations organized by the Ottomans. Between 250.000 and 300.000 Assyrians are estimated to have lost their lives during the Seyfo, the Syriac word for “sword”. Several Assyro-Chaldean delegations, from different countries and different churches, participated in the Paris Peace Conference after the War i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/failure-assyrian-lobbies-paris-peace-conference-1919-new-article-cmes-svante-lundgren - 2025-08-23

The review summarizes key findings of 53 peer-reviewed publications, published in English in the period 1994–2020 identified with the search terms “global learning” and “sustainable development”, sustainability or GLSD, respectively.   Despite continued efforts by educators, UN declarations and numerous international agreements, progress is still limited in handling major global challenges such as

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/global-learning-sustainable-development-historical-review-cmes-helen-avery - 2025-08-23

The title in Turkish: "Üzülmeden özür mümkün mü? Devlet söyleminde Dersim 1937-38" in a lecture series organized by Bogazici University philosophy students “Phil-Free”. Phil-Free is an educational community, established by the students of the Philosophy Department at Boğaziçi University. They are trying to make room for discussions of problems about human rights, freedom, and equality and their mo

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-pinar-dinc-gives-talk-apologies-and-changing-state-discourse-dersim-1937-38-turkey - 2025-08-23

General debate under agenda Item: 9 - racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 22 Mar 2021  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-mohammed-almahfali-delivered-speech-44th-un-meeting-46th-regular-session-human-rights-council - 2025-08-23

Depuis quelques années, les quotas pour femmes ont fait leur apparition dans la vie politique de plusieurs pays arabes. Quel est l’impact ces quotas ont-ils sur les élections législatives dans le monde arabe ?     CMES Rola El-Husseini gave a talk (in French) for a think tank in Paris, Centre Arabe de Recherches et d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. La participation politique des femmes une décennie ap

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/la-participation-politique-des-femmes-une-decennie-apres-les-revoltes-arabes - 2025-08-23

Photo: Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash CMES affiliated Madeleine Kassab participated in a Women & Children conference and gave a talk discussing the issues of the Arab entrepreneur woman. Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Amr Ezzat Salama, Secretary-General of the Association of Arab Universities, Swedish Iraqi Studies Network, and the Knowledge Enrichment Academy held in February 2021, t

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/media-framing-arab-entrepreneur-woman - 2025-08-23

Three fully funded PhD positions on demography, comparative politics and water availability in the Middle East. PhD Student in Economic History: Demography in the Middle East The PhD project and the doctoral dissertation must be focused on the demography of the Middle East, and the PhD candidate will will have double institutional affiliations with CMES and the Department of Economic History. Read

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/three-open-phd-positions-cmes-1 - 2025-08-23

Photo by Charbel Karam on Unsplash After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their wrongdoings. Rola el-Husseini is a researcher a

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2025-08-23

Photo by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash There is limited understanding of the geopolitics of fire, conflict, and land, for example, how conflict and fire are related and how conflict impacts the biophysical environment. Since 2014, the natural environment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been negatively affected by recurrent conflict that coincided with a sharp increase in the number of reported f

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-cmes-research-geopolitics-fire-conflict-and-land-kurdistan-region-iraq - 2025-08-23

The series of talks is called "AraBooks: Literature, politics, society and the arts from the Arab world, the Middle East and its diasporas." Thursday 13 May: Maria Frederika Malmström – The Streets Are Talking to Me: Affective Fragments in Sisi’s Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019) More info about the series  

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-maria-f-malmstrom-gives-talk-university-sydney-may-13 - 2025-08-23

Photo: Shravan K Acharya on Unsplash This study, published in Journal of Hydrology, shows substantial spatial variation of the negative impacts of water supply and future water security across the watershed. This is further increasing the pressure on its inhabitants, their economic activities and ecological values. Water security, a key policy objective for sustainable development, is under stress

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/modelling-impacts-climate-and-land-use-change-water-security-semi-arid-forested-watershed-using - 2025-08-23

Photo: Maria Malmström The book "Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change" (open access) provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/affects-change-ethnography-affective-experiences-2013-military-intervention-egypt-new-book-chapter - 2025-08-23

António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, speaking at COP15 in Montreal, Canada. Photo: Maria Blasi In 2022, the world's nations achieved a "Paris Agreement for nature" — the Kunming-Montreal Framework, negotiated during COP15 in Canada. Now, the follow-up meeting, COP16, is set to take place in Cali, Colombia. What is Sweden’s position ahead of this meeting, and what policy processes are underway f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/policy-insights-ahead-cop16-colombia - 2025-08-23

Stricter environmental requirements and alternative sources of income for the population are needed to stop deforestation in the Amazon, Jesica López's thesis shows. Photo: Sara Håkansson In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon. More efficient use of existing

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-thesis-highlights-sustainable-solutions-protect-amazon-rainforest - 2025-08-23

The Ecology building, Lund University. Photo: Sara Håkansson. CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to three (3) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in Environmental Science. Note: It is the supervisor who applies for this funding, not the student.The d

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science-0 - 2025-08-23

Long-term effective methods are needed to curb the negative effects of coastal erosion. Within the LIFE Coast Adapt project, researchers from Lund University, together with officials from Region Skåne and several coastal municipalities in Skåne, have tested various nature-based methods to contribute to a practice in the field. The project has now come to an end with promising results. In the LIFE

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/collaboration-led-methods-can-protect-our-coastal-environments-erosion - 2025-08-23